On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> Something weird is happening. I am trying to copy some email to a floppy disk
> but it won't. Here is what happens:
>
> knoppix@bmike1:~$ cd '/home/knoppix/Mail/Maryna/cur'
> knoppix@bmike1:~/Mail/Maryna/cur$ cp * /mnt/floppy
> knoppix@bmike1:~/Mail/Maryna/cur$
>
> Looks good from your point of view, right? but the floppy was not accessed at
> all. Upon further investegation I have discovered that there is a file
> /mnt/floppy on my harddrive and within this file resides all the messages I
> wanted to go to the floppy.
>
> knoppix@bmike1:/mnt/floppy$ ls
> 1070092437.701.lqJF:2,RS 1070594725.594.vabU:2,S etc.....
> knoppix@bmike1:/mnt/floppy$
>
Doesn't look like the floppy was a mounted filesystem.
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Do stuff
# umount /mnt/floppy
Alternatively, if it's installed you could have tried mcopy. No mounting
necessary.
# mcopy some_file a:/
> I would have liked to do this via the floppy icon on the desktop but when I
> tried it the response I got was:
>
> Could not write to /mnt/floppy/<file>
>
> Any ideas as to what I should do?
> Something that may help in figuring out what to do is that after a koffice
> application is loaded if I clik the floppy icon it accesses the disk
> properly.
>
Sorry, can't speak to what koffice is doing internally.
TJ
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