Earlier tonight I had my first real "pull-your-hair-out" moment, trying to mount a floppy. I have an old laptop that doesn't have USB for removable media, only floppy, and I had done the majority of my work on a research paper using that laptop - went to put it into my main PC under Mint for final editing (the night before it's due, no less) - to find that for the life if me I couldn't get the dang floppy to mount!
OpenSuse simply gave me an icon that I could right-click on and select "mount," and checking tonight from my Win2K partition the drive and disk are both working fine.
But under Mint I no longer get the icon, and trying to remember how to do it "the old fashioned way," I get a series of errors.
So first I created a directory at /mnt/floppy as there didn't appear to be a mount point already.
Then entered mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy and got the response that /dev/fd0 was not in /etc/fstab so it couldn't mount.
OK, so I open up /etc/fstab and put in an entry for /dev/fd0.
Repeat the mount command, it now tells me that /dev/fd0 doesn't exist.
I list the directly for /dev/ and sure enough there's no fd0 there - what is there is a folder called "fd," and then under that several entries such as 0,1,2,3, etc.
So I try again, this time using /dev/fd/0 instead of /dev/fd0.
This time it comes back and tells me that /dev/fd/0 "is not a block device."
I tried chatting with someone in the IRC channel who was kind enough to try to help but had to admit it had been a while since he tried to use a floppy, and suggested trying fd1 instead of fd0 (which didn't work) and also to verify that I was in a group called "floppy."
Well, going into the user/group manager, there is no group called floppy. He stated it should be group 19, but it didn't exist, so I created a new group #19 called floppy and dropped both myself and root under it. No change.
Seriously, this shouldn't be this hard. I fall strongly into the "I just want it to work" category, and Mint is failing immensely in this respect. What the hek do I need to do to see the stinkin' floppy? I was able to jerry-rig my way into my research paper by using Win2K long enough to pull the file off of the floppy and drop it onto a USB drive, so at least the crisis is over, but still - what's the deal! Is this some little detail that was late to be added to the RC release, or is this just the way Mint is?
Any help would be appreciated
