On 8 May 1999, Peter Makholm wrote: > > 3) Why does debian say 'only the root can do that' when I type the line > > below: > > $ mount /dev/fd0 (or any other floppy drive) > > I can't cd /dev/fd0 nor can I figure out how to access it. > > Because only root may mount devices as default. > > Edit you /etc/fstab and put auto as an option in the line mentioning > /dev/fd0. > > Please read "man fstab" first.
If you don't want to mount the drive for the entire session, you could also just try the following: su (enter password when prompted) mount /dev/fd0 /floppy (replace /floppy with whatever directory u want) exit Or you could enter just "sudo mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" if you use sudo. The drawback of this is that you must be root to write the floppy. > No. Almost any software you ever need exist as debian packages on > www.debian.org. > > If you really really really need something that aint packaged for > debian please say so. Probally others needs it as well. Ummmm ... not true. I've come across a lot of software I'd like that isn't in .deb packages anywhere - or the packages are poorly maintained, like the KDE ones. Am I just not looking hard enough? - Bill
