Mount Floppy Problems

[Tuzinor]

Have Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Complete installed.Currently booting from floppy.I cannot access Floppy or either CDRom drives-always get "you don't have access rights" message. Remove the icons from the desktop-tried adding Floppy again-still no luck. I am the only user for this system.How do I unlock the /mnt/floppy & Cdrom folders? Have read and tried various things without success.Thank's- Dave

[stingray72]

Sounds like you as "user" don't have permission to access the files. Try being root and use a terminal to:

mount /mnt/floppy or mount /mnt/cdrom

If that works and you want to be able to mount as a user you're going to have to change the permission using "chmod"

if you do a "ls -l /mnt/floppy" it will probably look something like

-rwx------ root ...... (and some other stuff)

Look at man chmod if you want to change permissions, I can't remember off the top of my head and I'm not at a Linux Machine at the moment.

Don't forget to umount /mnt/floppy or /mnt/cdrom before you take the disks out!

Hope this helps a little

stingray72

[bdg1983]

Are you logged in as a user and not root? If so, then check this.

Check the lines in /etc/fstab for the Floppy and CD.

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,defaults 0 0

Ensure for each entry that you have user specified.

[Tuzinor]

Ok- can log in as root-gone thru so many things with installing Linux this past week-sometimes just forget the simple things.Below is my /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,unmask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
Ok- now how do I change things to have total access? Remember I am a newbie as far as Linux goes! Whenever I try to access the floppy or cdrom files in /mnt-they have a lock on them.Thank's- Dave

[FyberOptyx]

This may fix your CDROM
web page (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/)

[Tuzinor]

I can mount a cdrom thru a terminal window. Using KDE for desktop.When I check the folders in /mnt >the floppy & both cdroms have padlocks on them.So when I try to create a desktop icon (in root)-fstab has the proper permissions- I always get "you don't have access rights to /mnt/cdrom".This is the problem I'm trying to solve.For whatever reason I cannot remove those padlocks.I would like functional icons to operate from.Any tips on how to do this will be GREATLY appreciated-as usual I must be missing something-thank's- Dave

[DJLischer]

I had the same problem when I first installed Mandrake 7.2 -- I could see the floppy or cdroms. At first I tried mounting them manually and that seemed to work. For example to mount the floppy I typed:

$ su {change to root}
# mkdir /mnt/floppyA {create new mount for floppy}
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppyA

That gave me access to the floppy. I thought I was always going to have to do that, which was disturbing since supermount is supposed to do this automatically. The next day, supermount started working properly and I haven't had to mount the floppy or cdrom since! The only thing I did in between was to edit lilo.conf to get my dual boot working with Windows 98, but I'm not sure that was related at all.