On Monday 05 July 2004 22:53, Rich wrote:
> Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote:
> >>This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my
> >> wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4
> >> months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The
> >> problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my floppy
> >> or CD-R drives, even as root. The message is that 'access is
> >> denied, could not write to /mnt/floppy/foo.bar.
> >>
> >>If I use Supermount to mount the floppy and look at the
> >>permissions under properties the option selected is 'Owner can
> >>view content'. If I try to select 'Owner can view and modify
> >>content' there is an error message that "changing the
> >> attributes of files is not supported with protocol devices".
> >>
> >>If I try to mount a drive manually the error message is that
> >>there are too many file systems, bad superblock, etc. If I try
> >>to unmount the drive the message is that there is no drive
> >>mounted.
> >>
> >>This problem started with MDK 10.0 as downloaded. Thinking
> >> that this was the problem, I bought the pak from Mandrake but
> >> the problem is still there.
> >>
> >>The computer is a Sony Viao laptop but I was having the same
> >>problem on my desktop machine.
> >>
> >>There are a lot of important files that desperately need
> >> backing up, someone please help!
> >>
> >>Rich
> >
> > Please post your /etc/fstab
>
> none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,
> fs=auto,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
>
> Rich
Hmm... looks allright to me. Have you tried :
fs=ext2:vfat
otherwise someone wiser than me step in here, please.
Kaj Haulrich.
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