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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