Floppy Drive Issues!
 

All,

Here is the problem. I have a Compaq Presario 1700T that has a hot swappable drive that the DVD-ROM drive and Floppy Drive share. When I installed SuSE 9.2 I used the DVD discs which installed the CD-ROM an DVD drive icons which work perfectly fine.

I recentely shut down the computer and put my floppy drive in and booted the computer up. When I logged in and went into My Computer there was no floppy drive mounted! I know that in Windows there is a Device Manager that would allow you to configure a floppy drive and get it working. I looked in YaST and couldn't find anything. Could someone please help me mount the floppy drive so I can use it or at least point me to where I can get a tutorial? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

-dumbsheep

well first things first...........is there a listing in /etc/fstab for your floppy??

2) is there a mount point?? example........
/mnt/floppy

3) you don't really mount the floppy at all, you mount the filesystem that is on the floppy disk........
SO, is support for your floppy enable in your current running kernel??

To answer your questions:

well first things first...........is there a listing in /etc/fstab for your floppy??
=No, there isn't a listing in my /etc/fstab. Do I need to add a listing?

2) is there a mount point?? example........
/mnt/floppy.....
=No, there is nothing listed in /mnt

3) you don't really mount the floppy at all, you mount the filesystem that is on the floppy disk........
SO, is support for your floppy enable in your current running kernel??
=Yes, I have the latest kernel version

Now to add something. I am able to access the files using the mount -t vfat blah blah blah command. I created a /Floppy folder which I "mount". However, what I want Linux to do is once it recognizes the floppy drive during boot up to create an icon and such in My Computer like it did for my CR-RW/DVD-Rom drive and hard drive, and like it does when I hook my USB memory stick up. Thanks again for the help!

-dumbsheep