Hello Robert, I think you need to chage the permissions of the /floppy directory...
chmod g+w /floppy .....if that doesn't work try chmod a+w /floppy Hope that solves it for you, Jimmy Richards On Saturday 31 March 2001 01:45, Robert Voigt wrote: > I formatted a floppy with mke2fs, but when I try to write something to > it I get a permission denied. I also added myself to group floppy and > changed the group of floppy to floppy, but it doesn't help. I don't have > problems as root nor with msdos floppies. > > Here is the line in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/fd0 > /floppy > auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 > > You see, there's nothing wrong with it. Or is there a hidden secret?

