From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECSxE-0003de-Mk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:12:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8628E3j000692; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 02:08:14 GMT Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8624KjM000379 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 02:04:20 GMT Received: from lamar.ColoState.EDU (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j8627VI117302 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:07:31 -0600 Received: from gentoo-00 (dialup0052.ppp.colostate.edu [129.82.52.151]) by lamar.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.3/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j8627Tq3477522 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:07:30 -0600 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 19:59:17 -0600 From: Adrian To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] floppy drive will format a disk, boot from a grub floppy, but can't write any files Message-ID: <20050905195917.03aa1eed@gentoo-00> In-Reply-To: References: <20050904091352.00626701@gentoo-00> Organization: On The Fly Photography X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cb32d9d2-4088-4084-8a32-2205ab51bb0f X-Archives-Hash: 318381d2262652429469d1656dbaed95 On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:40:41 +0100 "Michael Kintzios" wrote the words: > Try: > > # ls -la > > after you cd into it. The files you have saved on your fd0 may be > system directories/files i.e. they may have a . before the > file/directory name. > Thanks -- but I figured it out. It was nothing other than a issue with my fstab having something in there that wasn't needed & causing problems. I should have thought of that before posting. But thanks again. Adrian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list