John....no, I don't have "write" permission on the DOS
partition. The point was that I prevented the system lock-up
from happening by changing 'user,exec,conv=auto' to 'defaults'.
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> > Civileme....that's not what happens here. I have no Templates
> > folder (Air [7.0]) so I created a new folder (test) and put a
> > text file (text) into it. When I drag the new folder into the
> > window containing the dos root directory and choose to copy or
> > move I get an error message '! Could not make directory
> > /mnt/DOS_sda1/test'.
> >
> Do you have "write" permission on the DOS partition? If you haven't
> EXPLICITLY stated "user" in your FSTAB settings for the dos/windows
> partition (at least in Mandrake and RedHat up to 6.0) you will be
> unable to write on that partition.
> John
