I am running a Dell Latitude CPx that uses the swapable media technology, so i am able to press a button to eject the entire CD drive to insert the Floppy drive and vice versa.

The system recognises my CD drive just fine, but when i swap the CD for the Floppy and try to mount it in the terminal, i recieve the following error:

[root@localhost fauxfetus]# mount /mnt/floppy/
mount: can't find /mnt/floppy/ in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

So i hunted around this site and found a solution posted by some one who said that "if the /etc/fstab is set up right" then the following should work:

[root@localhost fauxfetus]# mount -t auto/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy/

So i tried it and it didnt throw an error, it just went to the next command line, but i was lost after that point. the mount /mnt/floppy/ command still does not work...

How can i set up rh9 to understand that i have swapable drives? Or at least, how can i understand what is going on here?

Confusing...

Curt

as far as Im concerned I think you need a mount point ex. /mnt/floppy .

/dev/fd0 is a floppy drives device file.

try this:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

replacing vfat with the filesystem type of your floppy drive.
Floppies are not usually mounted on boot, or ever, unless you do it by hand.

i have a windows (vfat) floppy drive. but i'm not on my linux box now.

So you are saying once i type the command:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

after that point i'll be able to mount and use my floppy drive by typing the mount /mnt/floppy command from then on in. Or will i have to mount my floppy drive each time with the mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy code.

Thanks for your help...

Curt...