automount floppy, suse 9.0

Horny Toad · 04-22-2004, 01:03 PM

Does anyone know a nice easy way to get floppies to automount on suse 9.0 so complete newbies can get by? I am building a box for a friend who is not pc savvy and is used to MS, I don't want to have to teach them mount /dev/fd0 etc as frankly they will run a mile and it would be nice to be able to have a box that needs absolutely no intro to Linux.

Cheers,

Mr Toad

mandeltuete · 04-22-2004, 02:17 PM

I guess you have KDE or GNOME or something similar?
Normally you have the drives on your desktop. There you should be able to click, and it will automount.

HTH

macewan · 04-22-2004, 03:58 PM

test the panel applet called "devices" - see if this will serve your purposes

JJX · 04-22-2004, 04:00 PM

vi /etc/fstab
find a line similar to this:
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0

change "noauto" to "auto"