Need help mounting floppy

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

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 <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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