[Gllug] Un-supported writing to floppy

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Wed Mar 30 09:57:23 UTC 2005


And verily, didst Bruce Richardson announce to the hordes:
> > 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?
> 
> Are you able to mount the drive but not write to it, or can you not
> mount it?

Shouldn't need mounting in suse...
Just writing something to /media/floppy should kick the automounter into
play and just write to it. (assuming there's a floppy with the write tab in
place in the drive)
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