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init: open "/dev/fd0": Permission denied

Did the floppy not get mounted somehow?  If not, how do I set it up so that
I don't have to mount it each time I need to use it?

Please reply by e-mail and post if possible.
THanks, Huy
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Bill
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William York

1. I created a floppy group, composed of such folk as had legitimate
   use for reading/writing the floppies.

2. I changed the ownerships of the /dev/fd* to root.floppy, with
   read write permissions for user and group.

This gives access to the right people, but keeps random users from
throwing a monkey wrench into the works....

just my $.02...

jjs

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 is a terrible thing to waste!     / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!

create a mount point in the root directory eg mkdir  /flopdos

edit your /etc/fstab file to include the following:

/dev/fd0   /flopdos    msdos   user,noauto,rw     # for manual mounting

/dev/fd0  /flopdos     msdos   user,auto,rw       # for auto mount at boot

I don not use automounting for flopy's as they are not used on a regular
basis so I do not know what happens if you boot without a disc in the drive.

I think the file as read at bootup so reboot and from then on to access
a dos formatted floppy simply:    mount /flopdos

DO NOT FORGET TO umount /flopdos when you have finished using each disc.

Hopefully this will help

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