Need help mounting floppy

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

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 <tigerflag at 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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