Need help mounting floppy

[Matt Mets]

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

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 <tigerflag at tigerflag.com> 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 <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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