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    Unhappy Mounting Floppy Drive

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    Hi
    I am having trouble mounting the floppy drive on my laptop.
    I have a inter changeable media bay that allows me to swap the CD drive for a floppy drive the problem is although I can save to floppy if I use Kwrite, I can not mount an icon on the desktop, or use the floppy to save Open Office documents.

    Here what I have tried so far, I first swap the CD bay for the Floppy drive and then boot up, I then log on as root, then enter this command in Konsole,
    /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 00

    The reply I receive is this,
    linux:~ # /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
    bash: /dev/fd0: Permission denied

    And if I just try, mount /floppy I receive this,
    linux:~ # mount /floppy
    mount: can't find /floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

    I have also tried using these commands in user, with same result.
    Any suggestions would be very welcome .
    Boldjim

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    It's probably /mnt/floppy.

    mount /mnt/floppy

    Post the contents of your /etc/fstab file.
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    Re: Mounting Floppy Drive

    Originally posted by Bold Jim
    then enter this command in Konsole,
    /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 00
    That line isn't a command that can be executed at the prompt; that's the entry that you would have in /etc/fstab for your floppy. You're getting the error because the shell thinks you want to run the command /dev/fd0, which, of course, isn't a command at all.

    Originally posted by Bold Jim
    And if I just try, mount /floppy I receive this,
    linux:~ # mount /floppy
    mount: can't find /floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
    Serz is probably right about this one- you don't have a /floppy directory. Check to see if a /mnt/floppy directory exists. If so, use that in your mount command instead. Also look in your /etc/fstab file, an entry for the floppy should have been automagically created when you installed the OS.

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    Unhappy

    Ok here are the contents of the fstab file
    /dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
    /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
    /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
    devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
    /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
    /dev/sr0 /media/sr0 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.Ps_7t2s11wC


    I can see my CD ROM drive the USB CDR drive but I can no mention of a floppy drive, as I used the CD drive to install SuSE, I think the OS does not reconise it.
    Boldjim

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    Add

    /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto user,noauto 0 0

    to /etc/fstab.

    Ensure that /media/floppy exists as that is the default mountpoint that SuSE uses though it may not if your floppy drive was not detected during the installation.

    See if

    dmesg | grep fd0

    gives you a response such as

    Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
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    Unhappy

    Hi
    I do get Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, but I can not seem to enter command into the fstab file even in root, the cursor just blinks at me.

    Boldjim

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    Hmm, how are you doing this?
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    Originally posted by serz
    Hmm, how are you doing this?
    to add to that what text editor are you using? eg vi, kate
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    /etc/fstab is just a plain-text file; it can be opened and edited in any text editing program. If you're working from the command line, use vi/emacs/pico/etc.; if you're in the GUI use any of the graphical text editing programs that SuSE provides.

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    Ensure that /media/floppy exists
    Shouldn't that be /mnt/floppy?

    Try:

    > pico /etc/fstab

    You must be root to do this.

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    Shouldn't that be /mnt/floppy?
    SUSE uses /media instead of /mnt for its removable media directory.


    Bold Jim
    You have to be root to edit anything in /etc. All of the methods described opening a console window. Logging in as root via su and using a console text editor to modify the file.

    I bet your just clicking on the file in Konqueror or other browser which doesn't open the file for writing. To open a file for writing in Konqueror right click on the file and select open with. Then select a text editor.

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    Hi Guys

    Sorry to take so long to answer, yesterday was not a good day.

    Michaelk, you were right I was just clicking on the file, I have not tried you advice yet but I will, and post the result as soon as I have.

    Thank you for all for the trouble you have taken.
    Boldjim

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    Tis me again
    All I can say is ARRRRRRG I enterd the command in the fstab using kwrite, saved then tried to mount the floppy using the command, mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /floppy as recomended in the posts, all I get mount point not found, but as soon as I open kwrite the floppy drive mounts, boy am I confused.
    Sujestions please, ones that dont incuded throwing my laptop out the window.
    Boldjim

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    Since you are using SuSE and as posted above, /media/floppy is the correct mountpoint.

    ls -al /media

    (look for floppy)
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    Hi
    I enterd the find command and recived this.


    jima@linux:~> ls -al /media
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 2003-08-26 17:06 .
    drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 456 2003-09-13 14:07 ..
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2002-09-13 00:14 cdrom
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2002-09-13 00:14 floppy
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2003-08-26 17:06 sr0
    jima@linux:~>

    As I understand it I have a floppy drive, so why can't I mount it,fedup and confused
    Boldjim

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