On Saturday 24 September 2005 12:14 pm Matt Mets kindly wrote: > If it mounted the floppy after you typed mount /floppy, then the > contents should be accessable in /floppy... you should be able to > type something like 'file:/floppy' into the location bar in > Konqueror to see your files. > > or on the commandline: > cd /floppy > ls > This is really bad... something's very wrong. mount /floppy error is mount: no permission Changing the icon to /floppy or using the commandline to cd /floppy I can't even make it to "ls". It just hangs with endless I/O errors. It's crashing X, making my icons disappear. It runs in the background and I can't stop it, even by logging out, going into root and doing a telinit 1. Doesn't care if I pop out the disk... I/O error. dev fd), sector 0 (also sector 2, 4, etc...) EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock end_request: unable to read superblock FAT: unable to read boot sector end-request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 (& etc...) help. > Like Simon said, you might have to change the link on your desktop > to point to /floppy instead of /mnt/floppy. > > Matt > > On 9/24/05, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: > > On Saturday 24 September 2005 08:35 am Simon Chatfield kindly wrote: > > > Looks like it is mounting to just /floppy and not > > > /mnt/floppy as it historically has. > > > > > > what happens when you type "mount /floppy" or "mount > > > /dev/fd0 /floppy" ? > > > > when I typed "mount /floppy" it seemed to do it, but then I > > didn't know what to do after that, as in, what to do to see the > > contents of the floppy. I suck at making my way around in > > commandline. > > > > When I typed "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" it said only root could do > > that. > > > > > If that's works ok, you can either change your config > > > files for the GUI to point to /floppy or make a > > > symbolic link from in /mnt/floppy which points to > > > /floppy. > > > > Could you please give me a concrete example? > > > > Thanks, > > Siri Amrit > > > > > --- Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: > > > > Haven't used a floppy in years, now I find I can't > > > > mount one. My icon > > > > for a floppy in KDE points to /mnt/floppy. There is > > > > no directory for > > > > floppy in /mnt and I can't make one. There is only a > > > > link there to > > > > the floppy, and the link is locked to root as owner > > > > and group. I > > > > can't change it. The icon on my desktop links to > > > > URL: /mnt/floppy. > > > > When I try to open the floppy I get the error > > > > message: > > > > > > > > "Unable to run the command specified. The file or > > > > folder > > > > file:/mnt/floppy doesn't seem to exist" > > > > > > > > Tried to make a directory for /mnt/floppy and got > > > > the error: > > > > mkdir: cannot create directory 'floppy': File exists > > > > > > > > This is what my fstab _was_: > > > > > > > > /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat > > > > defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 > > > > > > > > I changed umask to 000 (everybody can read and > > > > write) but it didn't do > > > > change anything. > > > > > > > > Went to kanotix's help forum and someone else had a > > > > similar problem. > > > > Kano recommended changing the fstab line to read: > > > > none /floppy supermount > > > > fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0,--,user,rw 0 0 > > > > > > > > Tried that. > > > > > > > > I know this should be a simple fix. Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > TIA, > > > > Siri Amrit > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > > > > settings: > > > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, > > > unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss