[ILUG] Silly floppy drive question.

[Ray Kelly]

Paul J Collins wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "R" == RichardA  <richarda at iol.ie> writes:
> 
>     R> My floppy disk seems only to mount in read-only mode. So I can
>     R> never copy a file from my PC (RH6.2) to it, only the other way
>     R> around.
> 
> Is there an entry for /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab with the ro option set?

on the off chance ... 

Is the little write protect tab on the disk set ...

you could also try this (as root)

mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/fd0 /floppy/
assuming that you've an  error free dos formatted floppy in the drive
if this doesn't work (with write protect off) investigate that the drive
ain't fukt.

	Ray ...