Trouble mounting floppy drive in Ubuntu 5.10
 

I recently needed to make use of my floppy drive (I know, weird). To access it, I went to places-->computer-->floppy drive. Upon double clicking that icon I get the error message:

Mount Error: give UDI is not a mountable volume.

Any ideas how I can get this fixed?
Thanks ahead of time.

/vital_101

Hi
I'm having exact same problem on identical distro.I would welcome the most simple instructions available as I'm probably the simplist newbie you've yet had to deal with! Thank you
Paul

Can you post the condense of the file "/etc/fstab"

may be there is no entry in ur /etc/fstab for mounting the floppy..

Mounting Floppy Drive
 

Put a disk in the drive and try again.

I managed to find /etc/fstab. there is an entry for my floppy that goes something like this:- /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Is this getting me anywhere?

Further to this,I tried a remedy I stumbled across in the LQ Wiki:-
mount /mnt/floppy and got cant find/mnt/floppy in/etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.
Now I'm really confused!
Paul

you would have to change the command to "mount /media/floppy0"
you may also want to remove the "auto" from /etc/fstab as you have "noauto" there, which conflicts it.

Many thanks to you 'binary y2k2'.The "mount /media/floppy0" command was a complete success!I have extracted the files I needed to get my ADSL modem working with UBUNTU and am therefore one step closer to being able to kick the 'anti christ'(Microsoft) into touch!
Just one more question re. this issue if you don't mind. How do I remove the 'auto' from 'fstab'? The file I took the info from was 'read only'.

you need to edit the file as root:
in Gnome, press Alt-F2 and enter
in KDE, press Alt-F2 and enter
in a terminal

Thanks again Y2K2. Concise, easy to understand answers. The only sort I can work with. You've saved me many hours and much frustration. I owe you one!
Paul

No problem Paul, you're welcome.

It's nice you took the time to say thanks, not many posters do that.

floppy not recognized
 

I am adding this here because it seems to be the same sort of problem.
2.6.15-26-386, used to be Kubuntu-6.0.6 but i goobered that up by fooling with synaptic wearing the wrong pair of glasses. 2.93 Celeron in an Intel D101ggc mobo.

THE PROBLEM: I put a floppy drive in the box, and turned on the computer. The copy of tomsrtbt on the floppy booted and ran. But above Linux doesn't recognize the floppy drive. My thought is that adding a line to /etc/fstab might solve this, but

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

with the last line above added,
#*****How does one add those cute code boxes to a post?*****
mike@kubuntu-treader:~$ mount /dev/fd0
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

with a floppy in the drive

mike@kubuntu-treader:~$ mount /dev/fd0
mount: mount point /media/floppy0 does not exist

If there are some texts that I could study to help with this I would appreciate hearing about them.
Anything short of re-sysgening.
Think ignorant newbee.

Studying hard to become a script_kiddy,
Mike Moulton

That would work if the device fd0 was associated with your device
By putting "[ code ]" and "[ /code ]" (without spaces) around the text.
you need to make sure the mount point (/media/floppy0) exists, if not then create it.
"man fstab" and "man mount" may help, fstab is pretty simple but mount is more complicated.

Look at the output of the command "lspci" post the output to see if your drive is recognised by linux.