Floppy drive, again

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: Floppy drive, again
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:00, Roy Babin wrote:
> jason pearl wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:02:37 -0800
> >Roy Babin <> wrote:
> >
> >
>       I cannot find fstab under /file........ I am using Suse8,2    with KDE
> if that would be of any help,   went under "Find" and could not locate it.

>
> >
> >
> >>I have tried all your suggestions,from all of you and still cannot get
> >>ito work. Now have an Icon on desktop, when I right and/or left click
> >>
> >>the Icon I get the following error msg.
> >>
> >>                Error-KDesktop
> >>            The desktop entry file
> >>     /tmp/kde-roy/Desktop-0/Floppy.desktop
> >>     is of typeFSDevice but has no Dev=...entry

> >>
> >>
> >
> >is the flopppy drive listed in th /etc/fstab file?
> >
> >should be something like /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto blah blah.

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don't know SuSE but generally...

cat /etc/fstab

will print the contents and

cat /etc/fstab|grep fd0

should show something like...

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto   
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


(I'm not sure that distro's other than redhat use kudzu)

Craig