can't write to the floppy ??!??

safrout · 11-16-2004, 11:52 AM

i am using Mandrake 10 official and i can't write to a floppy using a normal user account but i can using root account

i get this error

Code:

Writing  to devices is not supported

my /etc/fstab looks like this

Code:

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,exec,--,umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,suid,sync 0 0

can anyone help plz

sonic · 11-16-2004, 12:01 PM

I ran into the same thing. I just changed permissions on /dev/fd0. This can be done through the GUI as root or "chmod 777 /dev/fd0" as root from terminal.

safrout · 11-16-2004, 12:08 PM

ok thanks alot