Hardware:Configuration:Floppy:SuSE

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Bold Jim

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

Because you are not using the correct mountpoint?

For a dos/win formatted diskette that is inserted in the drive

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

For a ext2 (Linux) formatted diskette that is inserted in the drive.

mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

umount /media/floppy (before removing the diskette)

[Bold Jim]

Tis me again
I have been to bed for a hour, when I got up,
I tried,mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /media/floppy, as root,
this worked fine,now all I have to do get it to work in user.

Never mind, I am off to Linux classes for the hard of thinking, next month,
so hopefully I whon't bother you guys so much.

Thanks for your help

[mdwatts]

Have a look through the mount manpage (man mount) for the user/users option you add to the floppy mountpoint in /etc/fstab.

Searching the JL forums for 'floppy mount permission' or 'floppy mount user' should find other threads on the same topic.

[DMR]

A sample /etc/fstab entry which will allow non-root users to access the floppy:

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


The user option is what allows a non-root user to mount/unmount removable media such as floppies, CD-ROMs, Zip disks, etc. The "users" option is another slight variation; read the mount man page for a description of the difference betwen the two.

A further breakdown on the options:

auto - automatically detect the format of the floppy (msdos, ext2, etc.)

noauto - do not automatically probe for and attempt to mount removable media at bootup. Since you probably won't usually have a floppy, CD-ROM, etc. inserted when you boot, this option speeds up the boot process a bit by bypassing the check for those disks.

[michaelk]

Even if bold jim entered the correct line in the /etc/fstab he still will not be able to mount the floppy by specifing a filesystem type. At least it doesn't work on my PC's.

The user just uses the mount /media/floppy or mount /dev/fd0 ( in this case) command.

[DMR]

Originally posted by michaelk
Even if bold jim entered the correct line in the /etc/fstab he still will not be able to mount the floppy by specifing a filesystem type. At least it doesn't work on my PC's.

?? It's always worked on my machines... as long as I use the correct syntax

[Bold Jim]

Yes Yes O Yes
Success at last, I cam mount an icon on the desktop as user and read, & write to floppy.
Sorry to be over the top but it has taken me three months(on and of)trying.

Thank you all for all your help I have included my fstab so anyone, who does a shearch in the futcher can read it
/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/fd0 /media/floppy auto rwx,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/sr0 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.Ps_7t2s11wC:D :D

[bosox79]

I am glad you were able to mount your floppy drive

and your welcome

[DMR]

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