PCManFM won't display floppy disk contents

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tuclogicguy
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PCManFM won't display floppy disk contents

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I just installed Salix LXDE 13.37 32-bit on a Pentium III system that is about 10 years old. It boots up OK and I've been testing the various functions. When I click on "Floppy Drive" in PCManFM, it acts like it's starting to mount the diskette, the floppy drive light comes on, there's some activity in the drive, then a message pops up that says "Error: Directory doesn't exist!".

I can open up a terminal window and type

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mount
and it shows

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/dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy type vfat (rw,noexec,...)

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ls /mnt/floppy
displays the contents of the diskette. So, PCManFM did mount the diskette. It just won't display the contents.

Something appears to be configured wrong in PCManFM.
Any suggestions?
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gapan
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Re: PCManFM won't display floppy disk contents

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Is there any indication about what directory doesn't exist?

What happens if you navigate to /mnt/floppy with pcmanfm?
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tuclogicguy
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Re: PCManFM won't display floppy disk contents

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Is there any indication about what directory doesn't exist?
No
What happens if you navigate to /mnt/floppy with pcmanfm?
Yes, I can navigate to /mnt/floppy and read the contents of the diskette. But, even though PCManFM really did mount the drive, it doesn't recognize that the mount succeeded and when I right-click on "Floppy Drive" the Unmount option is grayed out. To unmount the drive, I have to open a terminal window and issue an umount command from there.
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gapan
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Re: PCManFM won't display floppy disk contents

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Can you install gmountman and see if it's possible to mount the floppy drive through it? I'm not sure you can, I haven't had a floppy drive for years.
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