does not have premission to access floppy
 

I just installed Suse 9.2 and MAN, this is way sweet!

Except for the wee nagging issue of when I opened Firefox and want to import my bookmarks. I click the import from file and I point it off to the floppy. Then I get a message telling me that "You don't have the neccessary premissions to view this file"

BAWwwwwwwwwwwwww, It's my file...

I think this is nice easy fix doing that command thing... chmod something???


thanks for you continued support in my formulative years as a "Newbie Linuxer"

You've to mount the floppy first :)

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

mounting?
 

Do I do that from a term window?.... Duh, where else am I gonna do it hu... ok, I'll try that.

gasp...

doug@linux:~> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: only root can do that
doug@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/doug # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: mount point /mnt/floppy does not exist

Hmmmmm, I just noticed, On my desktop I don't even see my floppy... nor do I see my DVD drive.

that's weird.
When I look in konqurer I can drill down to the DVD and floppy and looking at the premissions.. I see root.

Ok, here's what I get when I typed mount /mnt/floppy

linux:/home/doug # mount /mnt/floppy

mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

linux:/home/doug #

Any idea on what I shold do now. Oh btw, I'm taking this from a Redhat 9 bible I have hanging around here.

I figured it shold have some good info in it.

Create a directory in /mnt this way:
then try to mount it:
See if that works. Of course, if the file system is other than msdos, change the code accordingly (if it's a linux floppy you don't have to specify the filesystem).