Floppy Drive Not Mounting

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone--
>
> I now have a slight variation of the problem.  I am taking the liberty of
> bringing it up here because I believe that there is no difference in the
> Linux C.L.I. between openSUSE 11.3 and Ubuntu 10.10.  If I am mistaken, then
> I apologize.
>
> Below is what I have done on the C.L.I.:
>
> PRK at linux-PRK:/etc> sudo nano /etc/fstab
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400BB-60DGA0_WD-WCADK3933748-part5
> swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400BB-60DGA0_WD-WCADK3933748-part1
> /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0
> 0
> sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0
> 0
> debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0
> 0
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0
> 0
> /dev/fd0     /media/floppy0 auto   re,user,noauto,utf8 0    0
>
The /media device system will not work in fstab because it is a
dynamic mount point managed by the automounter (autofs), so this line
is not valid and will cause problems.

> PRK at linux-PRK:/etc> sudo mount -a
> root's password:
> PRK at linux-PRK:/etc> udisks --mount /dev/fd0
> Mount failed: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed
> with:
> mount: mount point /media/floppy0 does not exist
>
Well, like I said - you can't do that (in most cases).

> It goes without saying that I'm quite clueless as to what I'm doing
> incorrectly.

You need to mount the floppy drive to a real mount point, like
/mnt/floppy, which you have to create (as root) with mkdir.  A little
research, in man pages and some Linux/UNIX forums, on mounting disks,
automounts and managing file systems should help you a lot.  (Sorry I
don't have any pointers on this handy - I haven't needed to look this
sort of thing up in years.)