Re: Can't mount a floppy disk

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On Sunday 27 August 2006 11:29, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 11:17am on Sunday, August 27, 2006 (UK time), Nigel Henry scrawled:
> > Hi Keith. You need to create an fstab entry for it, and a floppy
> > directory in /mnt. As root.
> > mkdir /mnt/floppy
> >
> > Then, as root in a text editor, add the line below to /etc/fstab, which I
> > copied from my FC2 install, and works ok on FC5.
> >
> > /dev/fd0       /mnt/floppy              auto           noauto,owner      
> > 0 0
> >
> > Probably best to reboot, and the new fstab entry will be read.
>
> No need to reboot.
>
In a root console the command 'mount' should then mount everything that is in 
fstab, without the need to reboot.

> I think if you are putting these in fstab, the standard is to mount them
> to /media, not to /mnt - fedora seems to mount CDs and memory sticks
> here.  Of course you can put them wherever you want.
>
Anne

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