On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:12:42PM +0000, walter fry wrote: > Thank you for your help,,,I found the right click to open trminal,, then I > get a command line ... The problem is that my floppy is a usb floppy. > appearantly the right device block has not yet been written... Steve is > helping me ,,he is resently resaerching the solution......Walter
A USB floppy will likely appear as /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or so, depending. I recommend a 2.6 kernel if you have a choice since 2.6 kernels don't have a bug which could cause the exact device name of the floppy to change if you unplug and then reconnect it, all other things being equal. I personally like Apple's two solutions to this problem, the first being to give you the volume label in one place (this is what most people use) or a hidden directory with a 16 hex digit "GUID" which allows unique identification of devices if you need that feature. Of course, Apple provides an automounter that Just Works by default. I've considered that Linux could benefit from such an automounter config, but haven't seen any distribution try to set it up that way. =( Of course, I also wish Linux had hdiutil, which is about the niftiest little tool I've ever played with on a Mac command line, but that's another matter. =) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
