Re: [newbie] floppy mount problem
On Sunday 02 June 2002 10:57 am, you wrote: Hi, I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot mount a floppy. Any suggestion?? cheers /giannis Giannis-- I had a similar problem and found the the solution on the Frankenlinux page about fstab: www.frankenlinux.com/intor/fstab.html and used the suggested fstab setting listed there: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto rw,noauto,users,nosuid,nodev,sync,noexec 0 0 I think the important entry is the rw in the Mount Options (field three) list which means, of course, read/write. The Frankenlinux site is a *very* well written, useful resource--I recommend it. Not as much fun as this list, though ;-) Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] floppy mount problem
On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: Hi, I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot mount a floppy. Any suggestion?? cheers /giannis You may not have permission as user. Go to a console and type in su and then enter your root password. Then at the command prompt type userdrake all without the quotes. A small gui will come up and you will see your user(s) . Highlight your user with a click of the mouse and then click on edit. At this point you will see a new box, click on the group tab and then add floppy and probably cdrom cdrwriter users and any others you want, don't add root. This is done one at a time by highlighting the group with a mouse click and then clicking on the - arrow to put it on the left side. when done selecting click save and you will have access to floppy and others we hope. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] floppy mount problem
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: Hi, I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot mount a floppy. Any suggestion?? cheers /giannis You may not have permission as user. Go to a console and type in su and then enter your root password. Then at the command prompt type userdrake all without the quotes. A small gui will come up and you will see your user(s) . Highlight your user with a click of the mouse and then click on edit. At this point you will see a new box, click on the group tab and then add floppy and probably cdrom cdrwriter users and any others you want, don't add root. This is done one at a time by highlighting the group with a mouse click and then clicking on the - arrow to put it on the left side. when done selecting click save and you will have access to floppy and others we hope. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It may also be that you have one of those chipsets where the PNP Bios doesn't properly reset the floppy on boot. In that case esc at the boot screen and linux nobiospnp may be necessary If that works, then go to Mandrake Control center and under Boot = Boot Configuration, change the Append line of each linux boot to include nobiospnp Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
