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Black Sun and said:

Your consultant is not a very good consultant, then. If you live near a for "$CITY Linux user group" and see what you find. The people there will probably be able to solve the problems you're having in an hour if you bring the machine in.

Nautilus has no real advantages over Konqueror or mc or bash, and if you prefer bash, by all means use it.

??! Fire your consultant and get a competent one. All you need is a line like so in youretc-fstab :

dev-hda1 mnt-somewhere vfat umask=000 0 0

...since "noauto" isn't specified, the parbreastion will be mounted at boot. umask=000 makes it so that any user can do anything to any file or directory. Replacemnt-somewhere with the directory where you want the Windows parbreastion to be mounted. dev-hda1 is almost certainly the appropriate device.

? This is out of date AFAICT from looking at the code for mount.

It shouldn't, unless the floppy disk itself had its write-protect tab in the "read only" position.

Becausedev-hda0 doesn't exist?

Which GUI? There are a bunch of front-ends to cdrecord, and the one that works best IME is k3b. If reading's all right but writing isn't, you need to post the output of "lsmod" and "cdrecord -scanbus".

Yes. If you have an fstab entry with "user" or "users" in the options field, any user can mount-umount the parbreastion-disk. If there isn't an fstab entry, only root can mount-umount it.

Ah. That's for manually specifying the FAT size (12, 16, or 32 bits.) This is not usually useful and can be dangerous, since the structure of FAT is well-understood and autodetection is easy. Floppies always have

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