[newbie] Writing to floppy disc

[Andrew Barnes]

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When I tried this the response was "cp: cannot stat '/mnt/floppy/test.doc':
No medium found". I had a formatted floppy in the drive though.
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Try mounting the floppy drive before using the copy/cp command:

mount /mnt/floppy

...which is odd - times when I didn't mount the drive first, it would say
that the drive isn't mounted.

Don't forget to unmount the drive once you are done using:

umount /mnt/floppy

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Could you please let me know how to make the "pipe" symbol on a standard key
board?
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Sure - look to the Enter key, and then move one key up to see a key that has
"\" on it.  The key with the slash will show either a solid vertical line,
but some show two small vertical lines - it's pipe all the same, you just
hold the shift key and press the \ key to get pipe.

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I tried but the response was "cmod: changing permissions of '/mnt/floppy':
Invalid argument"
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My initial thought is that you fell victim to a typo - I don't remember
having to set a flag for chmod to recognize characters vs. numbers for
setting permissions.

-----Original Message-----
From: newbie-admin@vlug.org [mailto:newbie-admin@vlug.org] On Behalf Of
Bryan
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 4:22 PM
To: newbie@vlug.org
Subject: RE: [newbie] Writing to floppy disc


Thanks Andrew,

I don't know where I'm going wrong here.

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 19:06, Andrew Barnes wrote:
> Numerous bad GUI experiences led me to get more comfortable with the
command
> line - the nice part to this is that it doesn't matter what
> version/distro/etc this is done on.  
> 
> >From a command shell/terminal window you can run:
> 
> cp [/where/the/file/is] /mnt/floppy
> When I tried this the response was "cp: cannot stat
'/mnt/floppy/test.doc': No medium found" 
> I had a formatted floppy in the drive though.
>
> If you want to move the file to the floppy:
> 
> mv [/where/the/file/is] /mnt/floppy
> 
> If you get a response that your account doesn't have privilege(s) to do
this
> (and you know the root password), you can use the sudo command rather than
> logging in as root.
> 
> ===================================
> How to check and deal with permissions from Command Line:
> cd /mnt ; ls -l | grep floppy

> Could you please let me know how to make the "pipe" symbol on a standard
key board?

> That will show the permissions for /mnt/floppy - it should start with d
(for
> directory, because it is), or there's problems.  The letters after that
show
> what permissions ([r]ead, [w]rite, e[x]ecute)) there are per user, group
and
> world/other.  So it'd look something like: "drwxrwx---".
> 
> To change the permissions, you can use chmod.  Here's an example:
> 
> chmod ugo+rwx /mnt/floppy
>
> I tried but the response was "cmod: changing permissions of '/mnt/floppy':
Invalid argument"
>
> ...of full privileges to /mnt/floppy.  Not the best thing to do, giving
full
> permissions to something.  So you can choose specifically using:
> 
> chmod u+rwx /mnt/floppy
> 
> This will add read/write/execute privs to User - the other priv's to group
> and world/other are left as they were.  What if you only wanted to give
read
> and write priv?
> 
> chmod u+rw /mnt/floppy
> 
> You can replace the "+" with a "-" to remove privileges. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newbie-admin@vlug.org [mailto:newbie-admin@vlug.org] On Behalf Of
John
> Bartlett
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 4:22 PM
> To: newbie@vlug.org
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Writing to floppy disc
> 
> On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 11:20, Bryan wrote:
> > I am using Mandrake 9.2 and KDE. I can't figure out how to copy or save
> > files to /mnt/floppy. I am able to format a floppy disc though.
> > 
> > There is a small padlock symbol on the desktop icon for the floppy drive
> > and the screen for setting permissions under Properties is greyed out -
> > not accessible. But, I notice the box for writing is blank.
> > 
> > Can anyone telll me how to save or copy to the floppy disc? Change the
> > necessary permissions?
> 
> 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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