does not have premission to access floppy

Doug.Gentry · 01-25-2005, 09:19 PM

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"

Mega Man X · 01-25-2005, 09:27 PM

You've to mount the floppy first

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

Doug.Gentry · 01-25-2005, 09:32 PM

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

Doug.Gentry · 01-25-2005, 09:34 PM

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

Doug.Gentry · 01-25-2005, 09:51 PM

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.

Doug.Gentry · 01-25-2005, 10:20 PM

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.

harken · 01-26-2005, 02:02 AM

Create a directory in /mnt this way:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/floppy

then try to mount it:

Code:

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

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).