I have downloaded Ubuntu 7.01 and Installed it in a dualboot system with it's own drive. It runs OK. I want to put a file thatI downloaded on a 3.5in floppy. The system will not let me do it. If Iright click on the drive and go to properties it says that the driveis read only and I can not change it (the changes won't take) I tiedto go into the root and it won't do htat either. Any body got ideas?
I haven't used floppies in a long time. In order to write to it, you probablyhave to mount it after insertion, though.
I think your floppy is locked . Unlock it and then check.If still your problem persist feel free to write.
OK guess I am dumb. How do I unlock it?
take the floppy out of the drive and turn it over and look atthe back. You should see a little piece of plastic that can slideback and forth. If you slide it one way it blocks the hole. If Iremember right that's when it's unlocked. I think with the hole openit's locked. Like the tabs on a vhs or cassette but with the floppyyou don't break it out you slide it back and forth. on the front nextto that hole it should show something like a padlock lock showing onlock and one unlocked. I haven't used a floppy in over three years soI'm not sure.
OK now I get it. I have already done that. It is when I try to change the drivefrom read only to write and read that I am in trouble. It wont let me do that.
Floppy is not a reliable media . Try to convert your data on a cd.There is noting wrong with ubuntu .