Yes Dave that command will make it work next time you reboot. The original problem is that Ubuntu 8.04 doesn't always detect the floppy drive on first set up. so what you did was forced it to load the floppy module (so the floppy works) and now you will tell it to always load that module on start up. Type the command carefully! by the way incase you didn't know- sudo is the command to allow you to do Administer work on files . it's used to protect you from doing something bad with out knowing that it probably is important. as an intergrater in EMC you might use it quite a bit. If you run a command and get something like 'command no permitted' you probably need sudo and should think about what you are about to do!
Glad I could help-Funny I just read about his in emc's IRC (chat forum). ---------------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:25:28 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Desperately seeking my floppy drive > > Hi Chris > I've just included you on my Christmas list, > As soon as I hit enter after 'sudo modprobe floppy' the LED light came on > briefly and it now reads the floppy disk. It is also in the Places as 1.5MB > Media. So far so good, should I now run > 'echo floppy|sudo tee -a /etc/modules' and reboot? > Dave _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
