[newbie] Writing to floppy disc

[Bryan]

Thanks John,

The padlock went but I still can't seem to write to the floppy. I must
be missing something. I tried  the shell command for changing the drive
permissions but the result is "Invalid argument".

There is a huge amount to learn but I think it will be worthwhile.

Bryan 

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 16:22, John Bartlett wrote:

> Hi Bryan,
> 
> I delayed responding for a while as I am a newbie too and cannot even
> format a floppy using RedHat 9.
> 
> I do know however that if you open KDE or Nautilus from a command screen
> as root, you should lose the padlock and be able to copy to the disc. I
> don't think there is any way to change to root from within a user KDE
> screen.
> 
> I probably got some of that wrong but that should ensure that someone
> really knowledgeable will put us both right!
> 
> How often are you tempted to go back to the dark side?
> 
> John
> 
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