> On my desktop there is a floppy disk icon. That says to me, "Click here
> and  see what is on your disk!" Great. So I click it and nothing happens
> except a  blank /mnt/floppy window opens up. To make sure that it is a
> dummy file I  dragged and dropped a file in the window. The file was
> copied onto the  /mnt/floppy window but the drive didn't even spin. The
> same thing happened  when I dragged a file onto the fd0 icon. So I am
> left wondering, "How in the  world do you make this dummy fd0 icon into
> a real one?"
> :)~MIKE~(:
> ps  The CDrom drive does the same thing which will make it rather hard
> to  update this thing when such a time arises.
>
> Rest assured, I am writing down all of the answers given so I can
> rergurgitate  them to anyone else who ever asks!


Is the floppy disk mounted?  After you put the diskette in the drive, did
you type:

mount /mnt/floppy

Thomas