How do I Mount Floppy Disk Drive on SUSE 11.3

[flatstan]

I have just installed SUSE 11.3, how do I get a floppy icon on the desktop that I can right click on to mount. thanks.

[gogalthorp]

Which desktop?

[oz]

If it's Gnome, right-click the desktop and you should find an option to create a device icon where you can set the properties.

If it's KDE4, activate the Folder View widget, then right-click within the folder, then choose: Create New > Link to Device > Floppy Drive.

If it's Xfce4, it should be similar to the Gnome method above.

[ksrao]

Hi,

floppy can be mounted in two ways
1. Through GUI
2. Through Command

Option-1 is explained before in KDE & GNOME desktops.
Option-2 I will explain .

# mount /dev/fd0
           # umount /dev/fd0

                       or

           # mount    /media/floppy
           # umount  /media/floppy

An alternative way to mounting disks is to use the mtools commands.

DOS floppies can be accessed with mtools.
For Example:

mdir a:
                  mcopy /home/file.txt a:

If you want to clear your basics on Mounting & Unmounting attempt some
linux online test at wiziq .

Thanks
Regards
Kolla Sanjeeva Rao

[flatstan]

Thanks very much for your help people, I have gnome desktop, I will try your suggestions. Rgds.