floppy procedure

[Scott Talbot]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 09:31, wrench38 at juno.com wrote:
> It seems rather silly to have to ask this, but I haven't found the 
> whole answer in one place on the web. Does Fedora come prepared to 
> read and write floppies right out of the box? I need a step-by-step 
> procedure with nothing left out. If someone can point me to this, 
> it would be a tremendous help. My drive can only be mounted by root,
> and seems to be always busy. Can I drag & drop to copy a file to 
> floppy? You may have guessed that I'm new to this. Thank you.
> 

	I don't use the floppy much, but basically if you want to be able to
mount the drive edit the /etc/fstab file so that the line includes the
keyword 'users' as:

/dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy         auto    noauto,users 0 0

recommend you read `man mount` so you learn how to do this.

Also as root, change the permissions on the mount point:

chmod a+rwx /mnt/floppy 

(note that this gives anyone who has access to your machine the power to
execute a file from the floppy or write over your data) change to suit
your needs

You won't be able to mount until next reboot as that is when linux reads
the /etc/fstab file.

Yes you can drag and drop files to the Icon

P.S. it is much friendlier to post to mailing list in plain text, rather
than HTML, as I had to reformat your original message! :-)