No Floppy with IBM R30 Laptop

**downdogWoof** · 10-09-2004, 04:49 PM

Hi All,

mount /dev/fd0 gives the following error,

mount point /mnt/auto/floppy does not exist. Help, please. Cheers.

downdogWoof...

**rrfish72** · 10-09-2004, 05:11 PM

Post what ls -la /dev/fd0 gives. What it should look like:

rrfish72@rrfish72:~$ ls -la /dev/fd0
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Nov 14 2003 /dev/fd0

Probably delete the icon and create a new one. Right click -->Create new --> device -->floppy.

Hopefully that should do it.

**downdogWoof** · 10-09-2004, 05:25 PM

brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/fd0

**rrfish72** · 10-09-2004, 05:30 PM

Did you create a new icon? I think you have to add the user to the group for permission to use it. Can do that through Kuser. K --> system --> Kuser.

**downdogWoof** · 10-09-2004, 05:57 PM

Hi All,

hmmmm, asking me for a password..what password..? haven't set any yet...choosing ingnore gives a no access error...what gives here..? Cheers

downdogWoof...

**rrfish72** · 10-09-2004, 06:09 PM

Go to root terminal and do passwd. It will ask you to enter a neww one then confirn then your system root password is set.

**downdogWoof** · 10-09-2004, 06:13 PM

it asks for the current 1 for authentication...lol...Windows was never so tough..hehe

**rrfish72** · 10-09-2004, 06:20 PM

There is one terminal that will allow you to do it. Try other ones. root shell, console. Also, see the sticky on the top of this forum.

**downdogWoof** · 10-09-2004, 06:43 PM

Hi All,

ok, I set a new pass. Deleted the old icon. Remounted a new one. Set the permissions for the group, floppy and now, when clicking the icon, I get the following,

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: mount point /mnt/auto/floppy does now exist

**rrfish72** · 10-09-2004, 07:18 PM

Have to edit your fstab because it's showing the wrong mount point.
The mount point should be /floppy and the device should be /dev/fd0.
post your fstab