Re: mounting a floppy in rw mode

Seth David Schoen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
One Highlander writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I can't get the 31-Jan-2003 nightly build version to to mount my floppy
> rw mode. I didn't find this on the FAQ list. Since I can't write to the
> read only cd-rom, how do I make an entry to the fstab file so that the
> BBC will allow me mount and save a file to floppy.
> 
> This problem may be more related to my newness to Linux than an actual
> problem with the OS :-)
> 
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. 

Did you

mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

?

Having an fstab is not necessary for mounting.  However, our /etc
directory is writable (it's not actually on the CD), so you can create
an /etc/fstab if you need to.

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