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How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10

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hm_murdock:
In Red Hat 9, I'd do this...

su -

Enter root password

mount -t msdos (if it's a FAT floppy, which I'll assume it is) /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

works every time!

edit: fixed that stupid fuckup.. thanks WMD! :-D

[ August 12, 2004: Message edited by: JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder ]

WMD:
/dev/fd0, not hd0.  ;)

Make sure the fstab line has "user" in it.  Remove "owner" if that's there.

MrX:
bedouin:

 
quote: 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).
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/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

that is my fstab [I/]

where does the line go.

JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder
 
quote:  posted August 11, 2004 10:12 AM                        
 In Red Hat 9, I'd do this...
su -
Enter root password
mount -t msdos (if it's a FAT floppy, which I'll assume it is) /dev/hd0 /mnt/floppy
works every time!  
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it is a fat ass floppy. now the problem still isnt solved. feed me.

MrX:
oops, JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder
still it sais permission denied.

WMD:

quote:none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0
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Dumbest line I've ever seen.  

Replace that with this:
 
quote:/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autofs user 0 0
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