installing floppy and CD drives

[Owen]

I just got Kubuntu 6.10 installed along with Thunderbird and Firefox but notice that there isn't any indication that my floppy drive, printer or two CD drives have been installed/activated.
I need the simplest or instructions or referral to where I can find such information.
Thanks,
Owen

[devils casper]

Insert Floppy and Execute this

mount /dev/floppy

Does it throw any error message?
Insert any CD and if an Icon appear on Desktop, Your CD Drive(s) is working perfectly.
or execute this

sudo hdparm -I /dev/cdrom

For Printer, Press Alt+F2 and type kcontrol.
Peripherals -- Printers.

[Owen]

Thanks,
The CD's were there as you suggested.
The suggestion for the floppy drive and printer did not work.

When I entered : mount /dev/floppy
the response was:
mount: can't find /dev/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

When I Pressed Alt+F2 and typed
" kcontrol. Peripherals -- Printers."
The response was:
"could not run the specified command"

[devils casper]

When I entered : mount /dev/floppy
the response was:
mount: can't find /dev/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Execute this

kdesu kate /etc/fstab

Add this line at the end of file

/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

Try mount command again.

When I Pressed Alt+F2 and typed
" kcontrol. Peripherals -- Printers."
The response was:
"could not run the specified command"

You have to type kcontrol only. It will pop up KDE Control Center windows. Navigate to Peripherals -- Printers.

[Owen]

Thanks I do have both printer and CD operatioal
The problem still exists with the Floppy. I checked cable and power connection.
The floppy activity light goes on while booting and blinks once while Kubuntu is loading but remains dark after installation.

I did enter the commands given in your last post and after giving my root password ended up in the kate editor with:
kdesu kate /etc/fsab/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

What should I do now? The option seems to be to save it with some name.

[devils casper]

You have to add that line in /etc/fstab file.
Execute this

less /etc/fstab
ls /media

Post the output of both commands here.

[Owen]

Below are the two commands you asked for in your latest post.
Owen

ls /media
************************************************** ************************
cdrom cdrom0 cdrom1 floppy floppy0
************************************************** *************************


less /etc/fstab
************************************************** ************************
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda3
UUID=6a9c49b1-194f-4b34-8ee0-94ee68fce880 / ext3 defaults,error
s=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda6
UUID=00a127af-7f97-4a46-8bde-b8ce142da173 none swap sw
0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0/dev/fd0
/media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/etc/fstab (END)
************************************************** ********************

[devils casper]

/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0/dev/fd0
/media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

/dev/fd0 must be in next line. Is it a typo?
Insert Floppy and execute this

mount /dev/fd0

Post error message here, if any.

[Owen]

/dev/fd0 must be in next line. Is it a typo?
I don't think so, I copied and pasted rather than typed

Insert Floppy and execute this
Code:
mount /dev/fd0
Post error message here, if any.
Here is the response :
owen@owen-desktop:~$ mount /dev/fd0
[mntent]: line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: can't find /dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
owen@owen-desktop:~$

[devils casper]

[mntent]: line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad

Problem is in /etc/fstab file. There are two lines for Floppy in /etc/fstab file.

/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0/dev/fd0
/media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Delete above two lines and add this

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

It should be a single line.