I don't think that's funny, pe2338. There is someone I know who can help, and I have sent him this url so that he can come to your rescue. Hang in there

Linux is wonderful, just different (thank God) from that other OS we've been using. This morning I was extra glad I use Debian, as I checked my email on a web interface, and found over 100 messages from the W32.Sobig.F@mm worm. If I had checked in an email client under that other OS, I may have gotten it. Not so with this method.

Hope your problem is solved soon, and sorry I can't personally help you any better!

If you want to automount your floppy and CD-ROM so that you do not
have to keep typing mount and unmount all the time, then you need
automounted support built into the kernel (preferably the newer
autofs V4) or you build it as a module and have it autoloaded.

You need to install the autofs package

apt-get install autofs

Description: A kernel-based automounter for Linux
The kernel automounter implements an almost complete SunOS style
automounter under Linux. The automounter is supported by Linux kernels
2.0.31 and higher or the 2.1.X series. Automounter support must
be activated while compiling the kernel.


Then in /etc/auto.master you need an entry similar to

/auto/local /etc/auto/auto.local --timeout 60

and then in the file /etc/auto/auto.local you need entries such as

cdrom -fstype=auto,nodev,nosuid,ro :/dev/cdrom
cdrw -fstype=auto,nodev,nosuid :/dev/cdrw
dvd -fstype=auto,nodev,nosuid,ro :/dev/dvd
#
floppy0 -fstype=auto,nodev,nosuid,sync :/dev/floppy0
floppy1 -fstype=auto,nodev,nosuid,sync :/dev/floppy1

appropriate to the devices you actually have on your system.
Note that for convenience the above devices are actually symbolic
links to the actual devices (eg /dev/cdrom is a symbolic linke to /dev/hdc)

Then you also need to have a directory /auto

You will need to ensure that the /etc/init.d/autofs script is started in
run levels 2,3,4,5 and stopped in 0, 1, and 6

Then when you cd /auto/cdrom or try to access something which exists
under /auto/cdrom, your cdrom will be automounted, but if you just do
an ls /auto/cdrom beforehand, you will see nothing.

Note that you need the automount option in the fstab to be turned off.

Of course, you can read about all the details on automount in

/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Automount.gz

I haven't tried it out, 'cause I'm updating....

But I will..