Re: [opensuse] Beginner: How do I mount a floppy disk? changes ...


how about mount /dev/fd0
/some/place/where/it/makes/sense/to/mount/the/floppy/to
yes, better I suggested:
mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
yes but that is still copy and pasteable!

perhaps then, in light of copy-pasteable instructions, we should make
double sure the path exists..

mkdir -p /media/floppy

Besides,
the OP needed to access/mount a floppy - not much to think about.
Thank you for taking my side. Being able to "do just something" always seems to be a terrible crime in the Linux community. I have been scolded for that already many times ...

Well, there IS this path: /media/disk
but Alt+F2 -> mount /dev/fd0 /media/disk
does not do anything.
If I click on the FD icon, that has been there (Dolphin) since the installation, I get the message the device is already mounted, but
when I click on the "disk" icon, Dolphin tells me, it "cannot enter that folder".

Actually, I succeeded ONCE (oh joy) to access /media/disk-1 (where the "disk-1" comes from remains a mystery to me; and the simple "disk" folder does not do anything; if something is happening, it is with "disk-1").
But that I cannot repeat. I tried to "unmount" the FD (there are no "eject icons; at least I cannot find any), change the FD, restart Dolphin -> no effect.
But if I reboot the computer, click then first on the FD icon (the drive starts to make noise) and then on the (floppy) folder icon I created under "places", that particular FD is read. Again, changing floppys does not do anything.

So, is that it? Do I have to reboot the computer every time I want to change the floppy?
I "just" want to use floppys. ALL computers I have seen/used over the past 25 years allowed me to do that - no questions asked.
With Linux (on this occasion, but I tried that many times with different versions of Linux before) I spent already DAYS to figure out how to achieve this little feat.

This is a very, very exhausting procedure!

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