No floppy after installing mdk 10.1

jbuckley2004 · 04-19-2005, 06:56 AM

I was really happy with Mandrake 10.0 on my system, so I decided to upgrade to 10.1 (yeah - if it ain't broke...)
Two things happened. My cruzer mini no longer showed up on the desktop when I plugged it in (and yes, I see many other posts about this problem). I was able to get the files from /mnt/removable, however, so I lost nothing that I (carefully) backed up. Whew.
But after doing that at the console, my 'home' icon refused to function, at least, until I rebooted. It starts, but the script is pretty obviously dying somewhere before the gui comes up.

Then I noticed that my floppy wasn't recognized at all (though I had no problems like this with 10.0). Is this a related problem?

I've looked through the forums for any info, and I'm pretty sure /etc/fstab is implicated somehow (no reference there to the floppy drive at all, BTW). I don't have a copy handy at the moment, but I can generate one. I don't think I've seen my problem exactly here in the forums, but I'll be grateful for any help or suggestions on how to frame the question so that the search function will narrow down the possibilities.

Joe

oberon-ken-obi · 04-19-2005, 09:33 AM

jbuckley2004

This is an extract from my Fedora2 fstab (not sure if Mandrake is the same though)

Code:

#other stuff above
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 
/dev/hda2               /mnt/Saves              ext3    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdc2               /mnt/FedoraOld          ext3    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdc3               /mnt/Windows            vfat    defaults        0 0
# yet more below

The bold one is the floppy line.
All as root BTW. or su
Next you need to see if there is a directory called /mnt/floppy (again Mandrake may vary, but you get the idea)

Code:

#cd /mnt
# ls -la or some distros use the alias ll (el el) to see whats in it

After you have edited the fstab and the /mnt/floppy directory is created.
use

Code:

#mkdir /mnt/floppy if needed

#mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 

# this mounts it once, the fstab mounts it repeatedly on reboot.

If this is too rudimentary, please excuse me, when i first began i wished i had this sort of thing said to me in answer to some of my questions.
I'd rather offer too much than not enough information :+)

BTW Lol at the if it aint broke...
I went there once... or twice

Regards
Allan

jbuckley2004 · 04-19-2005, 10:17 AM

Ah, thanks, oberon. I believe this is the information I was looking for (and at the right level, too!)
I'll try it this evening.
Joe