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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



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