How do I mount floppy disks and cd disks?

[William F]

I've just installed Fedora Core 5.

Is there a program in Fedora Core 5 similar to "Disk Management" which formerly was found at Main Menu>sytem Tools>Disk Management?

How can I get a floppy disk to mount?

How can I mount a CD?

Thank you,

William F

[daverj]

if you have haldaemon running, the cd should automount.

to mount a floppy:

1) make a mount point like /media/floppy
2) make an fstab entry like

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,noauto,user,sync 0 0

3) mount /media/floppy


Dave

[d_GeNeRiT]

Originally Posted by daverj

if you have haldaemon running, the cd should automount.

to mount a floppy:

1) make a mount point like /media/floppy
2) make an fstab entry like

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,noauto,user,sync 0 0

3) mount /media/floppy


Dave

How do u make a mount point? What is the path to find fstab? Is this the exact thing I should type: "mount /media/floppy"

[u-noneinc-s]

vi /etc/fstab or gedit /etc/fstab

make the mount point with

mkdir /media/floppy

[Omega Blue]

You can also open "Computer" and double click the appropiate device

[William F]

Thank you Dave, U-none, and Omega Blue for helping me.

William F

[steve1961]

If you use gnome you could also use the disk mounter applet (right click the panel to install it). In kde I think the applet's called kwik disk

[William F]

Steve1961
Wow! Steve, that is the best solution I've seen. As many times as I have selected one applet or another, somehow I overlooked the Floppy/CD/ Stick Memory Drive, applets.
Thanks very much.

William F.

[steve1961]

Originally Posted by William F

Steve1961
Wow! Steve, that is the best solution I've seen. As many times as I have selected one applet or another, somehow I overlooked the Floppy/CD/ Stick Memory Drive, applets.
Thanks very much.

William F.

Glad to help, I use it all the time.

[Omega Blue]

Of course, you can always use "mount" ::cute::