[newbie] Writing to floppy disc

[Bryan]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 20:53, Thanh Nguyen-Huynh wrote:
> I am jumping in so I don't really know what was on this threat but konquorer 
> will have uid of who ever start the X server, if that user is not root, 
> konquerer will not be able to read the file. To read the file, you can change 
> the owner of the file, or change the permission of the file. Or you can start 
> the terminal, su, then fork another konquorer. This one will have root uid 
> thus can do anything.
> 
> I am guesting you are having problem mounting and using the floppy disk. To 
> make it easy, you can change the permission of the mount point to 777 and add 
> "user" to the flag associate with the floppy drive in /etc/fstab. That way you 
> can mount and use the floppy disk as a regular user.
> 
> --Thanh

I tried cmod u+rwx as root. This command was accepted from 'su' but not from user. 

As a user I could not access the floppy drive or get to change the   
permissions for it despite this command.

What worked it seems (I can now r+w to the floppy as user) was to 
unmount the floppy from root then as user right click on the KDE desktop
and choose "add device and then select 'floppy drive'.

After I did this an icon named "floppy device appeared on the desktop.
When I read or copy files to the floppy de3vice, e.g., drag and drop
from Konquerer,  another icon named "floppy" appears below the floppy
device icon.

I can change permissions for "floppy device" but not "floppy". I can
unmount both though. The distreibution I'm using is Mandrake 9.2.

If permissions for devices can be changed like those for files, I missed
something.

Regards,

Bryan

> >===== Original Message From Andrew Barnes <andrewbarnes@shaw.ca> =====
> >Sorry I'd forgot to mention that you won't get a response if the chmod
> >command is successful - no news is good news :)
> >
> >Unfortunately I haven't used Konqueror in a long time nor do I have a system
> >handy to test at the moment - I'm hoping someone will chime in with some
> >help on that issue.
> >
> >PS: Don't forget to unmount the floppy drive when you take the floppy out:
> >umount /mnt/floppy
> >