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dn1282
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 Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 9:42 pm Post subject: no floppy drive?? |
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Hi...I am using kde and on the desktop i right click and select "new link to floppy device" but the /mnt/floppy doesn't exist and neither does /dev/fd0. This can't be right because I have a floppy attached. I cd to /dev and fd0 is listed under there. I'm using devfs so i guess it added fd0 to /dev but how come I can't link to it?
what do i need to do to get floppy access?
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madpenguin8
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| Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it's in /etc/fstab, the entry for /dev/fd0 may need the 'users' flag, not sure, dont have a floppy drive and havent had to configure it.
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pjp
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Open a terminal and /bin/su - (login as root). With a floppy inserted into the drive, type | Code: | | mount /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy |
where /mnt/floppy is the mount point. What happens?
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delta407
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 2:57 am Post subject: Re: no floppy drive?? |
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| dn1282 wrote: | | /mnt/floppy doesn't exist and neither does /dev/fd0 |
1. Are you using devfs? (You are by default.)
2. Did you enable floppy support in your kernel configuration?
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dn1282
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:33 am Post subject: |
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Okay thanks to everyone to replied.
I figured it out. I had to add | Code: | | /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 |
to my /etc/fstab file. For some reason it wasn't there,  |
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delta407
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:43 am Post subject: |
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...I thought /dev/fd0 didn't exist?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| delta407 wrote: | ...I thought /dev/fd0 didn't exist?
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Good point... then I reread and am more confused.
| dn1282 wrote: | /mnt/floppy doesn't exist and neither does /dev/fd0.
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I cd to /dev and fd0 is listed under there. |
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dn1282
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| Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| delta407 wrote: | ...I thought /dev/fd0 didn't exist?
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for some reason before adding /dev/fd0 to my /etc/fstab file, everytime i tried to do "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" it tells me that /dev/fd0 does not exist, but when i cd to /dev it was there. So i don't understand why it told me the fd0 device didn't exist. But oh well, it works now.  |
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