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Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 11 August 2004, 13:21
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 !
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: skyman8081 on 11 August 2004, 13:32
do these two commands, in order
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 ]

Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 11 August 2004, 14:05
'mount: permission denied'
. i can take a screen shot of it. just tell me how and i can email it.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: bedouin on 11 August 2004, 14:41
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 ]

Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: Refalm on 11 August 2004, 17:38
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.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: hm_murdock on 11 August 2004, 19:12
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 ]

Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: WMD on 11 August 2004, 22:56
/dev/fd0, not hd0.  ;)

Make sure the fstab line has "user" in it.  Remove "owner" if that's there.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 12 August 2004, 21:34
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.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 12 August 2004, 21:36
oops, JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder
still it sais permission denied.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: WMD on 12 August 2004, 21:59
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.  (http://redface.gif)

Replace that with this:
 
quote:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autofs user 0 0
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 13 August 2004, 01:24
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!
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 13 August 2004, 01:25
pardon my spelling ^^^
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: flap on 13 August 2004, 01:42
how did you screw it up?
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: hm_murdock on 13 August 2004, 02:22
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.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 14 August 2004, 01:26
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!!!!
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 14 August 2004, 23:11
thanks WMD. this should fix the problem. after i can get my x to boot!!
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: Refalm on 14 August 2004, 23:30
Could you post the actual conf file? I have somewhat an idea what you did wrong (something I did wrong too  ;) ).
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: WMD on 14 August 2004, 23:32
quote:
Originally posted by 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!!!!


Your nvidia driver self-destructed. I've noted this to happen a lot on Mandrake 10. Just reinstall the driver and reboot.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 14 August 2004, 23:43
i will try what wmd sais. i dont know how to bring up the conf file without my x enviroment (kde) and even if i did i would haveto copy it out on paper then re-type it on this computer. so i will log into it, cd to the dekstop where the file is, but last time i remembered just type 'vd then Tab ' and it will fill out the rest of it. but when i was in the linux kernel it didnt do that. how do i get it to do this?
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: MrX on 15 August 2004, 01:26
wmd: my fstab looks like this now.

/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
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autofs user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
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i fixed my nvidia drivers. uninstalled them now 3d games work now.
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i edited the fstab then saved.
went into Konsole and typed:
mount /mnt/floppy
it still sais permission denied. i saved an mp3 on the floppy with win98.
problem not solved yet.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: KernelPanic on 15 August 2004, 01:46
i don't mean to insult your intelligence, but does the floppy have the write protect switch on?
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 15 August 2004, 20:45
You can still mount a floppy (in read-only mode) if its write protected. I've just tried it myself in XFCE in Vector Linux.
Title: How do I get a floppy to work in Mandrake10
Post by: KernelPanic on 16 August 2004, 18:23
What are the permissions on /mnt/floppy?