I am having difficulties withy the two. The system will not even access the drives. I tried through the GUI (there isn't a GUI for th CD) and I tried manually. Could ya all help? When I try to mount either it says:
root@bmike1:/mnt# mount /mnt/floppy
mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
root@bmike1:/mnt# mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
root@bmike1:/mnt#

But it is in fstab:

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,auto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat defaults,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0
0
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2
/dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2
/dev/sda1 swap swap noauto 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/etc/fstab (END)

So what am i doing wrong?

You're either missing the /mnt part of the path in your fstab or issuing the command with an unneeded /mnt, depending on how your directories are actually laid out.

It's not in /etc/fstab. If you read the error message carefully, you'll see that it's looking for /mnt/floppy. Since you don't specify a device/filesystem to mount on /mnt/floppy, mount looks in /etc/fstab for some hints as to what you really want. It doesn't find any there, so it checks /etc/mtab, and can't find anything in there either. What it's doing is, "what you tell me to do, not what you want me to do." You need to either 1) change the /etc/fstab line from /floppy to /mnt/floppy or change your mount command from /mnt/floppy to /floppy (make sure that mount point exists).

[edit]damn! too slow

Thanks gentlemen for the help. That did it! Now do you have any idea how to attach it to the 'Floppy disk' icon?

Moses, I just noticed that you are in Arizona. So am I! I live in Mesa near Southern and Center.

Never mind. To solve the second part of the problem I just dragged new links onto the desktop.

I'm in Tucson.

What DE do you use, for others' reference?

I an assuming that 'DE' means 'desktop environment when I say that I use KDE.

Yup.

if u want to add a floppy or cd-rom to your desktop, click right botton and sellect "add a new disk" or "add new cd/dvd-rom"
and to be sure u have added the floppy and cd-rom into your fstab file correctly.

and u can mount them manually by this command if u haven't add them to your fstab files:

for cd-rom

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom