Where's my floopy drive?

Louis Garcia II louisg00 at bellsouth.net
Sun Sep 3 20:18:40 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 12:57 -0700, alan wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 15:54 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote:
> > I found some old floppys and wanted to see what they were. Popped them
> > in and couldn't mount the drive. Gnome desktop's Computer didn't have an
> > icon so I went to System/Administration/Hardware which showed the
> > hardware. /dev/fd0 was there but nothing in fstab.
> > 
> > -Louis
> 
> Can you mount them by hand?
> 
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

Yes, I can mount it in the terminal. I edited fstab and created /media/floppy and
now gnome sees the drive. Seems the installer didn't do the proper things for
the floppy.

-Louis




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