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<DIV>Dear friends,<BR>I'm not able neither to copy nor to directly create
directories or text files into the floppy.<BR>I've got installed KDE
inside Linux Mandrake 8.1:<BR><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>
</FONT>1- I introduce the floppy.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT>2- I left-click on
the Floppy icon getting an error answer: the floppy is already
mounted.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <FONT size=3>3- <FONT
face="Times New Roman">I check the floppy unit has rwx rigths for
everybody.</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> 4- Then I right-click on Floppy -> Open with
-> ... -> File Manager.<BR>
For that I'm asked to enter the ROOT psswd.<BR> 5- I
navigate up to /mnt/floppy, which appears empty.<BR> 6- I copy
a directory (owner=ROOT) from another File
Manager window.<BR> 7- I paste it into /mnt/floppy but
the paste is rejected.<BR> 8- I try to create a directory in
/mnt/floppy but it is rejected. The same for a text
file.<BR> 9- Finally I try to do it by cp -R MyDirectory
/mnt/floppy, but it is also
rejected<BR> with the error
text "Read-only file system". However I check and the rights remain</DIV>
<DIV> rwx for everybody</DIV>
<DIV><BR>The floppy is MMORE 2HD DOS FORMATTED.<BR>Perhaps such DOS formatting
is the reason for the behaviour described above?<BR> If so, how could
I reformat it for LINUX?</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Previously I had done the same with another floppy I had
already used<BR>under XP-Windows and -I don't really know how- I was able to
copy </DIV>
<DIV>my directory to it, though after that I'm not able to read it under
</DIV>
<DIV>LINUX-Mandrake-KDE but I can actually do it under
XP-Windows!<BR><BR>Please let me know what I'm doing wrong and how to properly
do it.<BR>Many thanks in advance,<BR>Rafael .<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>