floppy drive and FC5

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 17:31, john s. wrote:
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> >>  Odd question; this box has 5 installed, I can't access the floppy
> >> drive- it doesn't show up when I click on the Computer icon on the
> >> desktop. I thought the drive might not be connected correctly, since I
> >> can't remember if the floppy was accessable when I set the box up.  My
> >> laptop, I orig had 5 loaded (same story with the floppy drive), then
> >> upgraded to 6; w/6, I can access the floppy drive.
> >>  I set up a second box w/5 over the weekend; the floppy disappeared
> >> after running patches and installing programs. Has anyone else seen/have
> >> this happen? Is there a way to correct things?
> >>
> >>                     John
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> > What happens if (as root) you enter
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> > mount /dev/fd0 /media/<your pre-existing mount-point>
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> > this mounts the floppy for me.
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> I'm fairly new to linux;  where would I log into root and enter mount?

FC5 removed removable devices from /etc/fstab, and in the case of cdrom/dvdrom 
drives there is no problem as, at least on KDE a window opens when you put a 
disc in the drive, asking what you want to do with it. In the case of the 
floppy drive, which is incapable of automounting, I did the following.

Open a terminal, type su, enter, then your root password, enter, then type.

mkdir media/floppy

Now type Gedit, Kwrite, or editor of your choice. When the editor opens, 
choose filesystem, then on the right, etc, then, fstab. You have to write a 
new line here.

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

Save the changes in the editor, and close it , then exit the CLI (Konsole)

When you reboot fstab will be updated.

If your using KDE, you can click on the "Home" icon, then the edit menu, 
create new/device/floppy device, and fill in the info required. You can then 
put an icon on the desktop for the floppy device.

Nigel.