Where oh where is my floppy?

**DrWhom** · 03-21-2004, 01:17 AM

I successfully got Knoppix installed to my HD. When I click on my desktop's floppy icon I receive

Code:

Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/mnt/floppy does not exist.

Any suggestions?

DrWhom

**OErjan** · 03-21-2004, 11:14 AM

no, sadly not. have you checked if it is found? and as what?

Code:

dmesg |grep fd

and check the /mnt/ if there is a dir called floppy there, it might be that simple.

**DrWhom** · 03-21-2004, 04:42 PM

Okay I tried the dmesg and recevied:

Code:

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

So I went into my fstab and found:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hdc3  /  ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1
/dev/hdc2  none  swap  sw  0  0
proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
~

When I cd to /dev/fd0 to find "floppy" I get:

Code:

bash: cd: /dev/fd0: Not a directory

So I put in a cd and mount /dev/cdrom, the drive begins to spin and then I receive:

Code:

mount /dev/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
       or too many mounted file systems

This is very strange to me. I hope someone can help.

DrWhom

**windos_no_thanks** · 03-21-2004, 06:08 PM

Code:

su
mkdir /mnt/floppy
exit

then edit /etc/fstab, change the "/floppy" entry to "/mnt/floppy" for instance like this:

Code:

su
kedit /etc/fstab
exit

For the cdrom we would need to find out where it is located logically, look in /var/log/messages.
Mine contains:

Mar 18 09:36:31 tuxbox kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Mar 18 09:36:31 tuxbox kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Mar 18 09:36:31 tuxbox kernel: Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CDRW/DVD SN-324F Rev: U200
Mar 18 09:36:31 tuxbox kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Mar 18 09:36:31 tuxbox kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Mar 18 09:36:31 tuxbox kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Mar 18 09:36:31 tuxbox kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

You should look for something similar.
Then check where /dev/cdrom points at the moment (it might be wrong), like this:

Code:

ls -l /dev/cdrom

Post back what you found & we will try to figure out what to do next.
BTW, did the CD you used already have some data on it (not blank or an audio CD) if not then I'd expect it to do something like that

**champagnemojo** · 03-21-2004, 11:09 PM

To mount the floppy, try:

Code:

mount /dev/fd0 /floppy

Was the cdrom you tried to mount a data cd? Like was just said, you don't need to mount audio cds, and will get that error message if you try, because the fstab is expecting an ISO9660 format. If it was data you may just need to try something else, like

Code:

mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom

**Stephen** · 03-21-2004, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by DrWhom

I successfully got Knoppix installed to my HD. When I click on my desktop's floppy icon I receive

Code:

Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/mnt/floppy does not exist.

Any suggestions?

DrWhom

Right click on the icon for the floppy select delete then right click on the desktop and choose create new then floppy device. In the device tab of the dialog that comes up select the /dev/fd0 from the menu list name it what you want and save the shortcut and you should be able to access the floppy with the icon.