Re: Problems with floppy

Hello,

The second problem was caused by the first line in Floppy.desktop that was
Dev=/mnt/floppy

I've changed it to:
Dev=/dev/fd0
and it solved it. This is strange because I never touched it so I think
that is the way it came with Mandrake 9.

If someone can help me with the first problem written below I'll be very
thankful.

Yuval Scharf


On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> Scharf Yuval wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > About my first problem: It looks that it's not what I thought before the
> > problem is that I just can't mount an ext2 floppy as regular user.
> > The line in /etc/fstab is:
> > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto 
> > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
> > As root I can do it only if I sepcify both device and mount point
> > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/
>
> You are correct, this does NOT make sense.I don't know if you need all
> of that stuff, but you have the filesystem set to: "auto" and you have:
> "user" in the parameter list.So, a user account should be able to
> mount a floppy with any standard file system.
>
> You could change the parameters to those in my previous posting and see
> if that helps.
> >
> > My second problem (a very strange one) is that is I use the icon on my
> > desktop in order to mount the floppy I get the konqueror trying to open
> > the URL:
> > http://navigation.realnames.com/resolver.dll?action=navigation ...
> > I'm showing only the beginning because it is a very long one.
> >
>
> I would take a wild guess that the "*.desktop" for that icon is wrong.
>
> Can you right click it and select: "Open With..." and then select an
> editor?It should look like this:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Dev=/dev/fd0
> FSType=default
> Icon=3floppy_mount
> MountPoint=/mnt/floppy
> ReadOnly=false
> Type=FSDevice
> UnmountIcon=3floppy_unmount
>
> Check first the "Type=".
>
> I think that you have, perhaps, a URL format: "*.desktop" file.
>
> --
> JRT
>
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