Mounting a floppy

[Seegee]

Hi, I have just installed Linux Mandrake 8, and I am having a couple problems with mounting FS's. I have been trying to mount the floppy and CD-ROM drives, but nothing seems to work.

After installation there were icons on the desktop for my floppy, CD-ROM, and Zip drive, but It wouldn't let me access them even from root.So I have been trying to remount them. I know the floppy work, because after installation I made a bootdisc from the control center. The error it gives me is that I don't have permission to access the device. I get that when trying to access from the desktop icons, and the /mnt directory as well. I have no idea what is going on with it. The command I have been typing is
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy. I have changed the fs variable to vfat,fat and none of them work.

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

 

[moyc]

Seegee,

The only thing I can think of is to make sure you are not in the actual directory that you are trying to mount. But I do not think that will give you permission errors.

Did you check the permission status on these directories? What happens when you do a chmod a+rw /mnt/floppy. Does that change the permissions status?

 

[Seegee]

I tried the chmod a+rw /mnt/floppy and the command went through ok, but still no luck accessing the floppy, or the CD, or the zip drive. I can access the mount points that were auto made for my Windows drives, and partitions. The exact error I am getting is "unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy you do not have access rights to this location." I get that when logged in as Root too.of course floppy would be replace with the device name. Is it possible that my floppy,CD-ROM, and Zip drive are not compatiable with Mandrake? That is the only thing I can think of. Even though Linux used the floppy to make my bootdisk. The CD-ROM is actually a liteon DVD-ROM, and the zip drive is USB. I am gonna move the HD I have Linux on to and older PC of mine, and try it there. I'll let you know if anything changes.

Thanks
Seegee

 

[Seegee]

Ok I installed it again,but it still does it. I noticed however that it is a "locked Directory" not sure what that is, but it has a lock pictured in the icon. I looked at the properties and that's where it says locked directory. Any idea how I would unlock it? It is locked in "root" as well.
The CD ROM and the floppy are both locked.

 

[Seegee]

Problem solved. I don't know why they are locked directories but I got them to work. Evidently Linux won't read a boot disk for itself while it is running. I never thought to try another floppy disk, until about 30 minutes ago. The CD-ROM works as well.