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.
The floppy icon shows up now, but I'm getting this message when I
click on it (with different discs in the drive- nothing to do with the
error message)
mount: mount point /media/floppy does not exist
??? About what to do now.
John
