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 Mounting Floppy Drive
Dell Latitude Cpx
500Mh prosessor
128 Mb RAM
20Gb hard drives
Duel boot Windows 2000pro and SuSE 8.1 pro
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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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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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?
djserz.com.ar
"All the drugs in this world won't save you from yourself..."
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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.
James
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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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