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MrX:
I am new to MandrakeLinux (you should know by now!!) its 1:15 in the morning and i am writing this. I have an mp3 on a floppy disk that i put on with win98. now i put in the drive and the disk icon is on the desktop. but wen i click on it, the light just comes on and its like the floppy drive gets locked up because nothing happens. Konquerer (kde) opens it but doesnt even show anything. i tried searching on the net and said i needed to mount it. in terminal i went
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mount /mnt/floppy
'permission denied'
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and i went into su account from login manager,changed some options in configure your computer but i wasnt sure what to do.

have fun helping me.
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sometimes i wish i had a mac !

skyman8081:
do these two commands, in order
[*]su[*]mount /mnt/floppy[/list]

then it will work.

note, su will prompt you for the root password, enter it and then mount it.

[ August 11, 2004: Message edited by: Sauron / B0B ]

MrX:
'mount: permission denied'
. i can take a screen shot of it. just tell me how and i can email it.

bedouin:
Check your /etc/fstab and make sure it has the proper entries for /dev/fd0.

Something like:

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner    0 0

Would be correct.

You're not using a USB floppy drive are you?  Those might be handled differently (I'm guessing, I never used one with Linux).

[ August 11, 2004: Message edited by: bedouin ]

Refalm:
The last time I used Mandrake (which was version 9) automatically configured fstab to read/write floppy's, FAT32 partitions and CD/DVD-ROMS under a normal user account.

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