On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:26, you wrote: > I thought I had everything working, until I recently tried to mount floppy, > zip, and cd from the KDE desktop. Each time I try to mount I hear the > drives spinning, desktop icons appear to be mounted, but trying to read I > get error: /mnt/floppy or /mnt/zip or /mnt/cdrom does not exist. For zip > it's especially fond of giving the error about no filesystem specified. > > This is bizarre in that I can successfully mount and umount, list and move > and copy files to/from the media as su/root in a terminal. > > My fstab looks like this: > > /dev/hda1 / ext defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > Mtab: > > /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0 > none /proc proc rw 0 0 > devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0 > /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 > > Should I just give up on the convenience of the GUI? > > Thanks, > Todd Not being a programmer I can't say for sure but this seems to be a bug in 8.1. Try making a new icon for each device on the desk top. In other words right click on an empty space anywhere on the screen and choose "Create New" and select new floppy device for the floppy and zip drives and new CDROM device for those pieces. The drop down list next to "device" is obtained by clicking the arrow and you will probably find that what is currently in the box label is not what your devices are call in the drop down list. Anyway have a look and you will see what I am trying to say. Once you have created new icons you can delete the old ones by right clicking and selecting delete. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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