[frgeek-michiana] VL 4.3 automount floppy drive workaround

Mike and I are trying to figure out why VL automounts a cdrom but not a floppy when logged in as guest. Until then, this work around does the job imperfectly. You must complete all three modifications.

1. Change owner for /mnt/floppy from root/root to guest/users.

    su -
    password: <root password>
    chown guest.users /mnt/floppy

2. Change permissions

    <while still logged in as root>
    # if you want user and group to write to floppy, but
    # not others (world)

    chmod 775 /mnt/floppy

    # if you want user, group and others to write to floppy

    chmod 777 /mnt/floppy

3. Modify /etc/fstab

    # comment out the default /dev/fd0 setup

    # /dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy    fs=vfat:ext2,noauto,xxxxx

    # copy the /dev/fd1 config line

    /dev/fd1    /mnt/floppy   fs=auto


Albert and I noticed that, on at least one system, it took 20-25 seconds for Abiword to write to floppy using this work around. We don't know why.

Tom 




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