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Hey, I have a laptop with a swap bay drive and I was wondering how you mount and unmount the cd-rw and floppy. I was fishing around the general questions site and is it something like this:
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/floppy
unmount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
You're nearly right.
When you have floppy and cdrom in /etc/fstab you can simply use
mount /mnt/cdrom
mount /mnt/floppy
If you don't have them in /etc/fstab:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
(hdx is for hard disks, floppies are fdx)
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
In both cases you can unmount using
umount /mnt/cdrom
umount /mnt/floppy
Hey, I tried out the mounting and unmounting thing and I got mixed results! Mounting and unmounting cd roms aren't a problem but whenever I try putting the floppy in the mouse goes really slow and then when the floppy goes in my computer crashes. And if I put the mount command in before I put the floppy in it still crashes. What seems to be the problem?
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