F10: mount floppy from gnome

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Fri, 11/28/08, Craig Goodyear <cjhs22a at swbell.net> wrote:

> From: Craig Goodyear <cjhs22a at swbell.net>
> Subject: F10: mount floppy from gnome
> To: "Fedora Mailing List" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 3:00 PM
> 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
> 
> What do I need to look at to track down the source of this
> problem?  I
> have searched bugzilla without finding a related error.
> 
> 
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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