Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

Hello all, I'm a new user who's been through the installation etc successfully but am finding it impossible to mount any floppies/cdroms. Command [as root] mount /dev/fd0 /floppy gets response mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. And the command mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom gets response

Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

Hello all, I'm a new user who's been through the installation etc successfully but am finding it impossible to mount any floppies/cdroms. Command [as root] mount /dev/fd0 /floppy gets response mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. And the command mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom gets response

Re: Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

Hi, as root, just add this line in your /etc/fstab file, it may be usefull /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 and every user will be able to mount you cdrom device typing mount /dev/cdrom or mount /cdrom and /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user then mount

Re: Problems mounting floppies and cdroms.

Command [as root] mount /dev/fd0 /floppy gets response mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. I get this error when I forgot to insert a floppy. This won't help you much I guess. If you have a line like this in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 you can