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Make sure your floppy line in /etc/fstab looks something like:<BR>
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# Floppy Drive<BR>
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,noauto,user,sync 0 0<BR>
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It should automount floppy disks upon insertion and double-clicking the floppy drive under Places, Computer. I don't know what kind of permissions will be used, as the floppy disks are probably FAT16/32 which don't really use permissions. They'll probably be set to read/write for the user who mounted the floppy drive though.<BR>
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On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:17 -0400, Eric Weir wrote:
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I have some old files on floppies that I want to copy to my hard disk. I
am able to mount the drive only with sudo on the terminal. After it's
mounted, ownership is root. When I try to change that by sudoing chown,
I am told "Operation not permitted." I thought sudo gave you root
privileges. Is there a way around this Catch-22?
At the risk of ticking off people who otherwise might be inclined to
help, I have to say that this is one of the things that's really
irritating about Linux, and that is driving me away from it. I have been
patiently -- well, honestly, sometimes pretty *impatiently* -- trying to
understand it, assuming that eventually things that used to mystify
would become intuitive.
I guess some have. Probably many have, given where I started. But over a
year into this and I can't even use my own frigging floppy drive without
asking for help? [I checked a couple books I have. I went to
linuxcommand.org for help with the commands. I posted on another forum.
Two hours have passed. Now I'm trying you guys.] I'm *tired* of this.
If you can forgive the rant, I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Sincerely,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
<A HREF="mailto:eeweir@bellsouth.net">eeweir@bellsouth.net</A>
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