30.1 Floppy Drive Access Permissions
In some installations users might not, by default, have access to the
floppy drive. Generally the floppy device (/dev/fd0) belongs
to group floppy and the administrator may need to add a user
to this group to grant them access. This can be done simply with the
GNOME interface from Applications\(\rightarrow\){System Tools\(\rightarrow\){}Users and Groups}. Refer to
Chapter ?? for details on managing groups.
Alternatively, from the command line the following has the same
effect:
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