permission to mount floppy denied

I've installed Mtools which should enable my linpus linux aspire one to read ms dos and atari files. I've a USB floppy drive which is recognised by the system which will read floppies formatted in Fat32. If I try to run Mtools though I get a 'you don't have permission' message. What do I do to solve this? (I'm not even sure what mounting is)

 

I don't use mtools, which is really just a collection of utilities, right? Maybe you need to give read/write access to the floppy drive? I'd try this ...

Make a backup of fstab just in case you want to go back to using the original:

Code:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.original

Then edit fstab:

Code:

sudo mousepad /etc/fstab

And add a line like this to the end of it:

Code:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw 0 0

Save the file and either do:

Code:

sudo mount -a

to have the system reread fstab or reboot.

Cheers.