Only view floppy drive in Gnome? What about the shell prompt?

[cheapbastard]

The only way that I can view the contents of my cd drives and my floppy drives is through the icons on my Gnome desktop. I try viewing through the Home Directory, and THAT only works if I click the "CDROM" or "FLOPPY" icon on the desktop first! Is this normal? Do I have my devices mounted correctly? Here are the lines from /etc/fstab:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 auto,owner,ro
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 auto,owner,ro
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto auto,owner,user

Plz help if you can, I'd appreciate it

Cheapnewbie

[Bradmont]

Firstly, did you mount the drive before trying to access it? Put a floppy in the drive and type "mount /mnt/floppy". This should allow you to access it. When done with the floppy, remember to unmount it before removing "umount /mnt/floppy".

You might want to edit that fstab so the 2 cd drives have different mount points (eg. you might want to use /mnt/cdrom for the first and /mnt/cdrw for the second, or find some nice descriptibe naming scheme). And be sure to make the directory you're going to use as the mount point for that second CD drive!

[sapient]

hey since we're mounting drives I could use some insight on this.

I was trying to mount a cdrom from across a sgi network and just couldn't get it to work from any angle (ie fstab cl nothing). used all the different fs types and permissions copied the exact line from the host machine fstab (excpt hostname of course)the only conflict I could imagine is mounting backward compatible from irix 6.5 to 5.3

any ideas