On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 12:59:06PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > I hit this strange problem today, on my potato machine: > > /boot# dd if=bzImage-2.2.12 of=/dev/fd0 > dd: /dev/fd0: Read-only file system > > Here is the permission for /dev/fd0 > > /boot# ls -l /dev/fd0 > brw-rw-r-- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Oct 4 17:41 /dev/fd0 > Questions: Are you trying to do this as a normal user? If so, are you a member of the group "floppy". BTW, the perms for my /dev/fdo are: brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, ......
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