floppy drive wont mount

[thokt]

i have problems useing my floppy disk drive

it says cant mount the drive
so i cant save/load anything useing floppies which is anoying

[Zelmo]

Mmm hmm....
Could you post the contents of your /etc/fstab and the exact error that you get when you try to mount a floppy?

[thokt]

my what???
to psot to error i woudl have to write it down ad type up etc

what happens is this. when i go to computer, and double click the floppy drive an error box coems up "unable to mount floppy drive"
i can get the exact wording but i dont think it would help

[Zelmo]

An easy way to post the error is to click and drag over the words, then right-click and picl "copy." Then you can paste it into the forums.

Your /etc/fstab is a file that describes what filesystems you want to be able to mount easily, where they should be mounted, and how they should be mounted. You can find it easily by opening a file manager (such as Konqueror if you use KDE, or Nautilus if you use Gnome), going up two levels from where the file manager opens (which is undoubtedly your home directory), picking the /etc directory, and then picking the fstab file. There are a lot of files in /etc, but they're listed alphabetically so fstab should be easy to find.
Open that up, copy everything in there (it won't be a whole lot), and paste it into the forums too.

[thokt]

i dont have net acces on linux
so coppying and pasteing wont work

[Zelmo]

M'kay, well, do whatever you can to get an accurate copy of those items posted up here.

BTW, we're going on the assumption that there's a disk in the drive before you try to mount it, right?

[thokt]

yup
there is a disk in the drive
blank
and then formatted

and it wont mount the drive

[oz]

Here's the floppy drive line out of my fstab. You can compare it to yours to see if you have any errors:

/dev/fd0     /mnt/floppy     ext2     user,noauto        0      0

Also, you'll need to make sure you have a mount point setup for it in your /mnt directory.

[pme127]

/mnt is empty

/etc/fstab has no floppy entry

[jan1024188]

hi pme127
If your fstab has o floppy line than add it.(copy that line which ozar has wrote and add it into your fstab)