CHMOD and Input/Output errors
 

Hi.
I have just tried to copy a file,to a 1.4MB floppy,and this was the result.
ERROR: Unable to enter File:/mnt/floppy.You do not have rights to this location.
I also noticed that the /mnt/floppy icon now had a lock on it.
In a terminal I ran chmod various options /mnt/floppy and this was the result.
CHMOD:changing permissions of /mnt/floppy:Input /output error.
When I run MDK 9.0 control centre-system-user I get this response.Cannot lock user lib,file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist.I can delete these files temporarily,as when I reboot the files come back again.
Thanks in anticipation.

Lachlan

It sounds like you don't have the floppy drive mounted. Open up your terminal and then as root type:
mount

This should display what is mounted. If you floppy isn't, then mount it:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Then you should be able to access it. Only as root though. If you want to access it as a normal user you might have to change what's in your /etc/fstab options section. If you have questions on that, post it here and someone can probably help you.

Cool

Thanks for the info.I tried to edit /etc/fstab but I screwed up really badly,because when I try to mount /mnt/floppy I get the output:fs type not supported by the kernel.

id: cannot find name for group ID 501
[lachlan@localhost lachlan]$ ls la-/mnt
ls: la-/mnt: No such file or directory
[lachlan@localhost lachlan]$ ls -la /mnt
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 6 root 0 4096 Nov 21 11:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root 0 4096 Dec 30 21:14 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 0 4096 Nov 21 10:27 cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 0 4096 Nov 21 11:00 disk/
drwxrwx--- 2 lachlan 501 4096 Dec 29 09:20 floppy/
drwxrwxrwx 9 root 0 4096 Jan 1 1970 windows/
[lachlan@localhost lachlan]$

/dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=auto,codepage=850,noauto,iocharset=iso8859-15,nosuid,ro,umask=0,
none /mnt/floppy dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,codepage=850,sync,iocharset=iso8859-15,unmask=0,
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
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Regards

Lachlan

It's trying to guess the filesystem. The "auto" option which is in your /etc/fstab entry will do it's best at guessing. I tend to use mainly floppies formatted with fat32 filesystems. So I have my entry using the filesystem vfat.

Here's my entry, you don't have to use this, but it might give you some ideas (man mount and man fstab will explain things about this for you):
Basically, it will automatically assume the filesystem is vfat, then mount it with the options noauto,owner

If you use a lot of floppies that are of different filesystems, you might wanna leave the "auto" in your entry in /etc/fstab.

Also, you might wanna check and make sure your distro has support for vfat, if you aren't sure I believe it's:
cat /proc/filesystems

HTH

Cool