Re: Write to floppy?

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

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