Floppy problems

[squareyes]

Robbo wrote:

>> From command line I managed to copy above files from floppy to Desktop, 
>>so files do exist on the floppy.
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>I'm guessing this was done as root.
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>>A png made with the Gimp, tried to save to floppy, gives "Could not open 
>>'media/floppy0/xyz.png
>>for writing:permision denied" Dragging and dropping same result "no 
>>permission"
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>And this as a user?
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>How did you mount the floppy (I'm guessing it was done automatic?)
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>Next time you insert the floppy, type mount at the command line (user
>access will be okay) and look for the floppy line..
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>Mine (although for the cdrom) looks like this, it should say
>user=squareyes as one of the options for yourself.
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>/dev/hdc on /media/cdrom type iso9660
>(ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=richard)
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>If it doesn't, look for your floppy line in /etc/fstab.  It should be
>something like this.  The option "user" is the option that may be
>lacking for yourself.
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>/dev/floppy       /media/floppy  vfat    user,noauto     0       0
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Hi Robbo,
mount is as follows
squareyes at squareyes:~ $ mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /windows type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=000)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy0 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
squareyes at squareyes:~ $

No user showing, but is in Fstab below

Fstab :
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda5       /               ext2    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda7       /home           ext2    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda6       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,auto  0       0
/dev/hda1       /windows        vfat    rw,umask=000,users,auto   0       0

have tried changing "auto" to vfat, same result.,
I realize floppy is a primitive device, but so am I , still not ready to 
be put
out to pasture :-) I do find them to be unreliable, but with 2 machines 
side by side,
1 running Knoppix, and this one Ubuntu, it is a convienient way to 
transfer small png files.
Files were originally saved to floppy from Knoppix on my old machine 
(166meg 64 edo ram Win 98)
will check the Knoppix Fstab that works.
Thanks again,
Take Care
Winton