you may also need to add yourself to the floppy group (if you aren't logging in as 'root', depending on how you are setup. By default (in certain security levels), users do not have permission to use the floppy or the cdrom.
This can easily be accomplished via linuxconf, or any of a number of other gui based system configuration tools. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:58 PM 01/16/2002 -0600, you wrote: >On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:26 pm, you wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Thanks for the help and the replies. >> >> This just shows how ignorant I am. What do I have to do to access or write >> in the words: /mnt/floppy/<name of file> ? I apologize for asking such a >> basic thing ahead of time. >> Respectfully, >> thmswldmn > >don't worry about it, as long as it looks like you're interested in learning, >someone will always answer. They mean type it in at a terminal, kinda >similar in appearance to the dos prompt in windows. Usually by default there >is a little icon that looks a little like a little monitor screen in your >panel, that's the link to a terminal/console. In there you will find a whole >new world. :-) >-s > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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