Nigel Henry wrote:
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 17:31, john s. wrote:
oldman wrote:
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john s. wrote:
Odd question; this box has 5 installed, I can't access the floppy
drive- it doesn't show up when I click on the Computer icon on the
desktop. I thought the drive might not be connected correctly, since I
can't remember if the floppy was accessable when I set the box up. My
laptop, I orig had 5 loaded (same story with the floppy drive), then
upgraded to 6; w/6, I can access the floppy drive.
I set up a second box w/5 over the weekend; the floppy disappeared
after running patches and installing programs. Has anyone else seen/have
this happen? Is there a way to correct things?
John
What happens if (as root) you enter
mount /dev/fd0 /media/<your pre-existing mount-point>
this mounts the floppy for me.
Scott
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I'm fairly new to linux; where would I log into root and enter mount?
FC5 removed removable devices from /etc/fstab, and in the case of cdrom/dvdrom
drives there is no problem as, at least on KDE a window opens when you put a
disc in the drive, asking what you want to do with it. In the case of the
floppy drive, which is incapable of automounting, I did the following.
Open a terminal, type su, enter, then your root password, enter, then type.
mkdir media/floppy
Now type Gedit, Kwrite, or editor of your choice. When the editor opens,
choose filesystem, then on the right, etc, then, fstab. You have to write a
new line here.
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
Save the changes in the editor, and close it , then exit the CLI (Konsole)
When you reboot fstab will be updated.
If your using KDE, you can click on the "Home" icon, then the edit menu,
create new/device/floppy device, and fill in the info required. You can then
put an icon on the desktop for the floppy device.
Nigel.
Well, I added the text; its getting late, so I'll find out in the
morning, if the changes worked.
John
