Can't mount a floppy disk

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 27 16:11:57 UTC 2006



--- Keith Powell <keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk>
wrote:

> I have installed FC5 with the KDE desktop. It's a
> very good 
> distribution and I am very pleased with it.
> 
> However, I need to be able to occasionally use
> floppy disks and I 
> can't get them to mount. Inserting a floppy,
> clicking on the desktop 
> "System" icon, going to Storage Media and clicking
> on the floppy disk 
> icon, brings up an error message that it can't be
> mounted. Neither 
> does it automatically mount when a floppy disk is
> loaded (in case it 
> should!). 
> 
> I have tried going to the icon's properties and
> experimenting with 
> various mount points, but it's still the same. i
> have tried selecting 
> "automatically mount" but nothing.
> 
> Then I created a desktop link to the floppy device.
> It still didn't 
> mount. Again, I tried pointing the link to various
> device mount 
> points (guessing where to point it!), but nothing. 
> 
> I can format a floppy, it's just that I can't mount
> it.
> 
> I'm lost and would appreciate it if someone would
> kindly point me in 
> the right direction.
> 
> If this has been asked before and answered, sorry
> for asking it again, 
> but I can't find it in the mailing list or forum
> archives.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Keith
> 
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Hopefully, gnome-libs or other dependencies are
present in your system.

Fireup a terminal and do
$ gnome-mount -d /dev/fd0

This should mount your floppy and create the mount
point /media/floppy.
To unmount 
$ gnome-mount -u /dev/fd0

If this fails, then become superuser, su -
and put in your password 
# mkdir -p /media/floppy   *could be /mnt/floppy 
  * depends on your preferences
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/flopppy

and this also mounts it. 
To unmount
# umount /media/floppy

Regards,

Antonio 

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