Unable to use floppy dirve
Jeffrey D. Yuille
jeffy5 at optonline.net
Wed Oct 11 02:01:09 UTC 2006
Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
> Try the following
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ gnome-mount -d /dev/fd0
>
> if that does not work, mount it as root
> [root at localhost ~]# mkdir -p /media/floppy
> [root at localhost ~]# mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> if the above gives you error messgage then specify filesystem type msdos, vfat,etc
> [root at localhost ~]# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
>
Hello Antonio,
Thanks for the help. I was able to mount the drive. How do I
permanently write these commands to a file so that the drive would
automatically mount when I insert a floppy and to which file(s) would I
write these commands to?
Jeff
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