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Message from Steven
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Teixeira wrote:
>
> I need to know which are the steps to have floppy 

mount /fd

> and Cdrom mounted on BL3

insmod cdrom
insmod ide-cd
insmod isofs
mount /dev/hdc  /mnt

> I can make   mkdir /mnt/cdrom  for example 

mount /dev/hdc  /mnt/cdrom    (if you prefer)

> but I can't go to   /etc/fstab 

edit /etc/fstab

> My access to /etc/fstab  is denied 

Really?  What does it say?

> and I notice that I can't do "su" or "sudo" or log as root

In BL3 you are automatically root.  Try this:
------
whoami
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> I also need do tkow if formatting a floppy like
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
> is ok.

That will mount the floppy on /mnt, but it does not 
format the disk itself.  To format a floppy, you use
fdformat and mke2fs.

Cheers,
Steven