Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
DOH! Tnx Dylan. I was under the impression that as I am using KDE the floppy drive would already be ready to go ie not need mounting.
This 'user error' was corrected when I logged as root, mounted the floppy and copied the files across.
For the normal SuSE install, it is not necessary to log in as root to mount a floppy. You should be able to do it as a regular user. That is what I know as well but having not used the CLI mount before I was a little awe struck when looking at the man pages. Of course it didn't help me not knowing if the disk was formated as FAT/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3 either. Going the root way there is a desktop icon
Geoffrey wrote: that says floppy disk and by clicking on this the drive is mounted np. I didn't see the Floppy device on the desktop under a normal user but I have now and it actually works! :) I would however still like to know the mount command syntax to use if I do not know the file system on it and it hasn't already been mounted via the fstab file. Can I always use the mount point of /mnt/floppy? Help wit the mount syntax required. Appreciated -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================