Floppy Drive Not Mounting

[Nathan Bahn]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:34 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 02/03/2011 11:35 AM, Nathan Bahn 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
> ...
> $ gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
> might be a little easier for you unless you are on a server :-)
>
> > /dev/fd0     /media/floppy0 auto   re,user,noauto,utf8 0    0
>
> Modify to:
>
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
>
> >
> >
> > PRK at linux-PRK:/etc> sudo mount -a
> > root's password:
>
> Don't need to do anything as root. Just as a regular user w/sudo.
>
> > 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
>
> Fix the /etc/fstab & reboot.
> ...
>



Hello everyone--

Regrettably, I'm still screwing up.

PRK at linux-PRK:~> 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

(gksudo gedit didn't work)
PRK at linux-PRK:~> sudo nano /etc/fstab
root's password:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400BB-60DGA0_WD-WCADK3933748-part5
swap              $
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD400BB-60DGA0_WD-WCADK3933748-part1
/                 $
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


I'm afraid that I'm as clueless as ever.....
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