The mount command usually requires both a device name and mount point unless the device name is listed in your /etc/fstab. Look there for the floppy drive info, mine is: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 To mount this in the fully qualified way would be: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Note that the file system type is set to auto in /etc/fstab. It should automagically determine the file system type. And since it's in fstab, I can also do just mount /mnt/floppy Same is true for cdrom and any other mount point, if they are defined properly in /etc/fstab you can simply mount the mount name and skip the device. This assumes that the device exists and there is proper media inserted etc. For more info on mounting http://www.alwanza.com/howto/linux/floppy.html http://home.ubalt.edu/abento/linux/terminal/mount.html http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/linux/mount.html also commands man mount man umount man fstab And the dosfstools docs for formatting and such http://www.fifi.org/doc/dosfstools/ I appreciate linux more and more every day, even still, started with redhat 5 almost 10 years ago, it gets better all the time. My system is dare I say more stable than windows will ever be. -- Doug
