Re: 2 Qs re: mounting floppy and cdrom

["Arnold P. Miller" <apmplus mozcom com>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David Powers wrote:
> >%_
> 
> Stephen and Julia Schott wrote:
> 
> >
> > b) once the cdrom is mounted, I can't eject (the button won't work!)...don't
> > have this problem in Windows. How do I fix that?
> 
> just type umount /dev/cdrom and you will then be able to eject the cdrom.  This
> is a safety measure, you would not want someone to walk up to a box that was
> serving up cd's and have them just be able to eject out those cd's now would
> ya?  Though I'm sure you are just using this as a desktop, I'm not sure if there
> is a way to change that behavior.
> 
> >
> > 2) How do I mount my floppy?
> > When I type the command:
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy
> > I get the following error
> > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> 
> You can try mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> But, I would have a look and the mtools man page if you are going to use dos
> disks with your box. man mtools
> 

Insert your diskettes first before you mount your floppy drive

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