How can I mount a floppy? solved

[jag1182]

If this exact question has been asked, I apologize, but search in each forum I thought might be appropriate didn't reveal it. I thought I saw something on it several days ago, but I sure can't find it.

How do you mount a floppy drive?

Is there a way to do that automatically at start-up? My wife will never buy into this conversion if not.

thanks.

[Husse]

Use a screwdriver
Talk your wife out of floppys - they are very unreliable and painstakingly slow
You should have this line in fstab

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

Then it's just to insert, and before removal unmount/eject like with a CD

[jag1182]

Thank you very much.

I told her they're always hard to mount if they're floppy. Seriously, a main reason for needing floppies is that she uses several computerized sewing machines, and at least one of them requires floppies for data input (for certain types of stitches or for embroidery patterns, and so forth.)

I tried the command you gave me above. It told me /dev/fd0 command not found. So I tried it with sudo /dev/floppy, still /dev/fd0 command not found.

[Husse]

Sometimes the brain is somewhere else when you write - have you experienced that as well ?

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sudo mkdir /dev/fd0 

You need to have a directory for it. This is taken care of automatically during install in the normal case

[jag1182]

Yes, I am beginning to think my brain is always doing that now. Thanks, Husse. I think that worked. But now, I tried to save a file to the floppy - from OpenOffice.orgWriter - and the message I got is error, "/dev/fd0 file wifipy298a.odt does not exist" The file I'm trying to save is already saved to HD, it is the result of running Wifi.py. I'd like to get it to floppy so I can bring it to this machine and send it to you, to see if you can give me a hint as to what I need to do now to get my wifi running. But for now, I can't save anything to floppy yet.

[Husse]

This rings a bell (but no whistles )
I think it has to do with permissions - check the file permissions of the floppy - you should be the owner or "Unknown" but not Root

[jag1182]

Thank you very much. I tried that, but couldn't change the permissions.
So then I made it sudo su and it worked. Again, thank you.