[Gllug] Un-supported writing to floppy

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sun Mar 27 20:06:14 UTC 2005


On Sun 27 Mar, Gatekeeper wrote:
> 
> Hello All.
> I am using SuSE Linux on a Dell Inspiron 4000 and have just upgraded to 
> ver 9.2.  It may well be idiot finger trouble :-) but I am unable to 
> find any help in 2 Linux manuals (3 counting the suse manual) and 1 Unix 
> manual to change 'permissions' (?) either as root , group or user to 
> allow me to write to my floppy drive particularly to back up vital data 
> from my word processor :-(  Can anyone please help?
> Kind regards.
> David

   Log in as root and hand edit /etc/group to add whichever users you wish
to the various groups (I use vi which defaults to vim on Debian).

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Chris Bell

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