Floppy mounting is a bit weird ...

orange400 · 03-02-2003, 11:27 PM

If I mount a floppy as root and save the settings before I log out, the floppy appears for all users, and that's good, that's actually what I wanted. Cool. Bu it's a little weird, when I switch disks and press reload, it just clears the folder and doesn't reload. This kinda makes the floppy useless. Can this be solved?

Crashed_Again · 03-02-2003, 11:43 PM

All disks in Linux must be mounted to use. Before you take out your disk you must unmount it.

orange400 · 03-05-2003, 10:24 PM

Ok. That's ok anyways, I can switch between DOS and Linux well that way.

Dark_Helmet · 03-05-2003, 10:56 PM

What distribution are you using?

For Red Hat 8.0, the fstab is set up to allow any user to (un)mount the floppy drive as well as any CD-ROMS. You can mount it by right-clicking on the desktop -> disks -> floppy. Then you right-click on the floppy icon, and select Eject to unmount it.

Just throwing in my 2 cents...