How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10

[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

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.

[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).

/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!  

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

Dumbest line I've ever seen.  

Replace that with this:
 

quote:/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autofs user 0 0

[MrX]

oh yeah, in another note, i crashed my linux system again. i was installing the linux nvidia drivers and screwed it up. i couldnt find the help topic on this forums site so i tried it. the same thing happened last time but i just formatted and restarted. it ogs in in the linux command promt and when i login and type 'kde'
it sais something like there is a screen but it cannot activate it. got any clues? then i can fix my floppy!

[MrX]

pardon my spelling ^

[flap]

how did you screw it up?

[hm_murdock]

it's hard to mess up that install. more likely I'd say it screwed up. perhaps it installed the wrong driver for your kernel... or something fouled up somehwere else.

it's just that many people assume that when something goes wrong on a computer that it's their fault.

[MrX]

really, i didna edit the file that makes it say from driver=vga to driver=nv or whatever it was. last time this happened to me i was playing armagetron and it froze(intel 440 chipset) that is not supported by mandrake.
this is what the screen sais i have to copy it on paper first)


Local host log in_ (my log in name)    

i type 'kde'    

yadda yadda xfree86stuff errors    

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the nvdia kerel module  
(EE) NVIDIA(0):***Aborting***  
(EE) Screens found, but none have a useable configuration    

Fatal server error:  no screen found

 then that same screen came up after i installed the nvdia drivers wrong. the first time this happend i then reformatted it and uprgaded to a 600 athlon from a 500 katami and i have some biostar motherboard with amd chipset. but hurry! this over ends soon. for a limited time only. aka- help me quik i need to do my important emails and armagetronning!!!!