Can't mount a floppy disk

[Keith Powell]

On Sunday 27 August 2006 11:17 am, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 27 August 2006 11:36, Keith Powell wrote:
> >
> > I need to be able to occasionally use floppy disks and I
> > can't get them to mount. 
>
> Hi Keith. You need to create an fstab entry for it, and a floppy
> directory in /mnt. As root.
> mkdir /mnt/floppy
>
> Then, as root in a text editor, add the line below to /etc/fstab,
> which I copied from my FC2 install, and works ok on FC5.
>
> /dev/fd0       /mnt/floppy              auto           noauto,owner
>       0 0
>
> Probably best to reboot, and the new fstab entry will be read.
>

Hello Nigel. Thank you for the information.

I hope to be able to try it later today, as I do need my floppies!

I am surprised that the installed floppy desktop icon doesn't work 
without editing the fstab file.

Cheers

Keith