On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Richard Adams wrote: I'll try this when I get home. However, I thought that LM6.1 was supposed to let regular users mount drives. I also know that the floppy is mounted since I can access it from kde's file browser with no trouble. I'm using /mnt/floppy as the path to my floppy drive is this correct? > On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > I got star office and wp8 to install fine, but when I try to get them to > > save to my floppy drive I get a permission denied message and have to save > > to hdd first and then transfer it to my floppy. > > does anyone know how to fix this? > > Sounds like your using wp as a normal user and your floppy is only > useable by root, to change the flopy, edit /etc/fstab to look > something like; > > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos user,noauto 0 0 > > Its the user, that alllows a normal user to mount and unmount the > floppy. and msdos would possably be fat or vfat. > > Or it could just be that you get permission denied because the floppy > is not mounted at all. > > > > > David van Balen > > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > Regards Richard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 5054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clinton, MS 39058 http://www.mc.edu/~vanbalen
