F10: mount floppy from gnome

[Craig Goodyear]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Fri, 11/28/08, Craig Goodyear <cjhs22a at swbell.net> wrote:
> 
>> I am not able to mount a floppy using the mount option for
>> the floppy drive in the Computer folder on the Gnome desktop. 
>> Selecting the open option, gives the following error: "Unable to mount
>> location, Can't mount file".  I do not get any selinux errors. 
>> /dev/fd0 is created when the computer boots.
>>
>> However, if I add the following entry to /etc/fstab for the
>> floppy, I can mount, access, or umount the floppy from a terminal:
>> /dev/fd0     /mnt/floppy      auto    noauto,user    0 0
>>
> 
> You can fire up a terminal and do 
> $ gnome-mount -d /dev/fd0
> or /dev/fdX where X is 0,1,2,... depending on how many floppies are in your computer.
> 
> Many computers nowadays do not come with floppies, but if yours has one, you can use gnome-mount to mount it and the entry will be created in /media/disk usually.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio 
> 

Antonio, thank you for the quick reply.  Using your suggestion does 
work.  In addition, after using it one time, I am now able to mount the 
floppy drive from the floppy icon in the Computer folder.

Craig