no access to floppy or zip

[Craig White]

Quoting mazdaracer <mazdaracer@earthlink.net>:

> I just tried (for the 1st time) to read a floppy.  I got an error
> dialog:
> 
> Unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy (or /zip). You do not have access
> rights to 
> this location.
> 
> That was when I clicked the desktop icon and also tried to view it via
> the 
> file manager.
> 
> I also tried as root from the terminal (ls /mnt/floppy) and got
> Input/output 
> error returned.
> 
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su to root

mount /mnt/floppy
ls /mnt/floppy

you can edit /etc/fstab floppy if you want other users to be able to mount a
floppy...

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy     auto     user,owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0

note -- user 

Craig

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