Hi, i just installed Debian (v3 r2) and i seem to have a problem with the file system. It seems that i cant copy anything to a floppy. Even when i chmod the file i wanna copy i still get the problem. Any ideas on how to correct this?

Thanks (please keep in mind i am a newb to linux)

A little more info would be helpful. What command are you using and is the floppy properly mounted and formatted.

The command should be something like "cp somefile /mnt/floppy" assuming that you are in the directory the file that you want to copy is.

Mounting the floppy would be (usually) "mount /dev/fd0"

Hope this helps, but if not, give a bit more info.

Jim Dishaw

Also, check the write protect tab on the floppy. That sounds like something I would do, and wouldn't think right away!

hey mako. glad to see ya here. as well as checking if you're floppy is mounted and formatted correctly, you're right in that you probably have a permissions issue. but with mounted drives, the permissions can't be made by chmod. you need to edit your /etc/fstab to include the umask option. something that looks like:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat,ext2 noauto,owner,users,umask=0000,exec,rw 0 0

the umask=0000 tells linux to mount the floppy with read, write, and exec priveledges for all users. the users option allows all users to unmount the floppy drive.

anyway, after making these changes to your /etc/fstab, you'll need to unmount your floppy with the umount command (if the floppy was mounted during the editing of your fstab file) and remount it using the command:

mount /dev/fd0