Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 17:16:41 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> To: David Abdemoulaie <DAcash18@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble writing to a mounted DOS floppy Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990505171514.-131053F-100000@akane> In-Reply-To: <3730784B.C6706B1D@vt.edu>
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> to write to teh floppy I get the following error message "cp: > /floppy/blah.c: Permission denied" > > I even unmounted and remounted the drive with the -w option to ensure > that it was read/write. > > Any help on this matter would be appreciated. When I have this problem it's because the floppy is mounted with root permissions. Su to root and see what happens. You may also want to make sure that it's a fresh formatted floppy. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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