report cards read-only on floppy

[Chris Aitken]

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Chris Aitken wrote:
>
>> Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>   The only way to control what goes on the floppy in this situation is
>>> to fiddle with the ownership and rwx permissions of /dev/fd0.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I did the following commands (trying to open a file from the floppy 
>> between each command):
>>
>> [chris at p733 chris]$ mount /mnt/floppy
>> [chris at p733 chris]$ chmod 777 /dev/fd0
>> [chris at p733 chris]$ su
>> Password:
>> [root at p733 chris]# chmod 777 /dev/fd0
>> [root at p733 chris]# chmod -R 777 /dev/fd0
>> [root at p733 chris]#
>>
>> ....still the files only open read-only.
>
>
>    Why are you chmoding the device instead of the file system?
>
> chmod -R 777 /mnt/floppy

Yeah, I tried that before I started this thread. Walter thought I'd have 
to "fiddle with the ownership and rwx permissions of /dev/fd0" (see 
above), so I tried that. you probably guessed it didn't work.


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