no access to floppy or zip

Just re-booted the laptop which also runs Mandrake 7.2 and floppy works fine
there.

8.0 bug maybe?



On Tuesday 19 June 2001 11:02, you wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
>
> 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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