Re: Need help mounting floppy

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" ?

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.

-Simon


--- Siri Amrit Kaur <tigerflag@tigerflag.com> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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