Date: Thu, 6 May 99 18:01 +0100 From: Justin Murdock <justin@csad.coventry.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble writing to a mounted DOS floppy Message-ID: <199905061701.SAA06394@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Rick Hamell's mail of Wed, 5 May 99 17:16 %2B0700
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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. what is the result of % ls -ld /floppy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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