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
Last edited by megaspaz; 01-19-2004 at 03:24 AM.
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