How do I mount a floppy drive manually as when I click on the floppy icon in the Home folder it says ERROR Konqueror- the process for the media protocol died unexpectedly.
I ran this command as root mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy and it asked me for a file system so I tried FAT & FAT32 but no luck, did I get the command wrong to mount the floppy drive manually and also what can cause the Konqueror error.
I am using SuSe 9.3 Pro.

"I ran this command as root mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy and it asked me for a file system so I tried FAT & FAT32 but no luck, did I get the command wrong to mount the floppy drive manually "

You may have the file system type wrong. Try:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

The floppy may not be formated. Try formating it as ext2 before you mount it:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy


"and also what can cause the Konqueror error."

konqueror issued a mount for the floppy drive and the mount command failed.

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Steve Stites

Ran the first command and this was the reply.

Password:
linux:~ # mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: mount point /mnt/floppy does not exist

And running the second command got the same answer.

what happens if you replace "mnt" with "media" as the mount point (since that's where Suse automounts CD's, floppies, usb, etc.) ?

You can mount a floopy to almost any directory, however, it must exist first. You could make the directory "/mnt/floppy" ,however, I would look into my fstab file to find the default mount point...

cat /etc/fstab

after /dev/fd0 it will tell you the default mount point, and you can make the needed adjustments to the mount command.

KC

trackrat@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/trackrat # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
linux:/home/trackrat # mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /media/floppy busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /media/floppy
linux:/home/trackrat #

According to this it is allready mounted so why can I not use it.
When I click on the icon in the home folder I get the message that I origonally posted about (media died unexpectedly)
I have tried several distros and have never had a problem with the floppy loading so is there a way to sort it out in yast as when I click on Hardware there is no entry to go to a floppy drive.

Thanks to all for your help so far.

"/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0"

You have the dvdrecorder and floppy set to use subfs. subfs is an attempt to have the kernel automatically guess what you want to do with a mountable device. This leads to arguments between you and the kernel about what the device status should be. You will always lose these arguments. There are two possible solutions to the problem. You can mount the floppy as a subfs file system which tells the kernel to do things its way:
mount -t subfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Or you can change the references to subfs in /etc/fstab to auto, reboot, and start mounting the floppy the way that you think best.

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Steve Stites

i cant believe that this issue still has not been fixed in suse 9.3...

for those who have missed it, if you click the floppy icon in the 'media' section of konqueror, it will not work. the message given, 'media process died' comes up.

im not sure if the changes to fstab fix it, i think it is a problem in suse hal.

this has been reported for months now, and there still is no fix.

I agree with jailbait it's a subfs problem...

I personally hate all this automount junk... I disabled Supermount in MDK and mount all my drives manually... That is the Linux way and the automounting of drives has come about to attrcked windows users...

I really don't know why it is so difficult... Insert media, mount it, do what you need to do and unmount it... I don't know why it has become so complicated.

KC