Write to floppy?

[larry shields]

cj wrote:
> norman wrote:
>   
>>>>> When I put a floppy in it opens as read only. I've tried accessing as 
>>>>> root and trying to mount it with -w as root. It just won't let me. 
>>>>> Anyone know why?
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>> Are you sure that the little tab on the floppy has not been set to read
>>>> only? If it has, slide it up or down which ever the case may be.
>>>>
>>>> Norman
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> norman, if he has the tab set to allow reading and writing, you still 
>>> have ubuntu to deal with as it, for some reason, allows only the root 
>>> user to write to teh floppy
>>>     
>>>       
>> I must admit it is a long time since I used a floppy but, if you want, I
>> will try to find one and see what happens. However, I am convinced that
>> floppies are easily mounted and used.
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> right..you just have to access them with root permissions to write to 
> them. otherwise you can only read
> --cj
>
>   
Try mounting the floppy, like this...
Mount /media/floppy0, then cd /media/floppy0, you then should see the 
prompt say norman at whatever:/media/floppy0 your floppy drives LED should 
light up...

The do an 'ls' to list the files, now too write to the floppy you have 
to be root...

Hope this helps you...

Larry


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