floppy drive and FC5

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 17:49, john s. wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 17:31, john s. wrote:
> >> oldman wrote:
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> >>> john s. wrote:
> >>>>  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
> >>>
> >>> What happens if (as root) you enter
> >>>
> >>> mount /dev/fd0 /media/<your pre-existing mount-point>
> >>>
> >>> this mounts the floppy for me.
> >>>
> >>> Scott
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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.
>
>   The floppy icon shows up now, but I'm getting this message when I
> click on it (with different discs in the drive- nothing to do with the
> error message)
>
>        mount: mount point /media/floppy does not exist
>
> ??? About what to do now.
>
>         John

Doh! This worked first go for me on FC5. Have a look in /media to check that 
the floppy directory is there, that you created when as root you ran.
mkdir /media/floppy

There shouldn't be any permissions issues with the floppy. I did though create 
the floppy directory in /mnt on FC5, but don't see that creating it in /media 
should make any difference.

Are you using KDE? If so, with Kdisk free, and right clicking on the floppy, 
can you mount it from there, and then when it mounts, right click again, and 
open it in a file manager?

Nigel.