On Sunday 30 September 2001 13:59, you wrote: > On Sunday 30 September 2001 11:22 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > > Could someone please help me here? I have just installed > > Linux-Mandrake 8.1, and everything works great, except for my floppy > > drive :-/ I have used Redhat, LM 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, and they have never > > given any problems regarding the floppy drive. > > > > I read on the mandrake site that 8.1 uses some new method to > > automatically configure devices, but I just can't work it all out. > > > > When I try mount the floppy to any of the floppy devices, I get : > > unknown device. > > > > Any suggestions are welcome :-) > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Ralph > > You could try to either: mount /mnt/floppy before cd to it, you could > try to delete your desktop floppy icon and recreate it, or you could > try: supermount -i enable. One little trick I've learned for the > stubborn cases is: if after you cd /mnt/floppy and still can't read it, > s to /mnt and then cd floppy. Don't know why, but it sometimes helps. > -s
---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- I believe I read that 8.1 shipped with supermount disabled, not absent just disabled, so the mount and umount command will be necessary as -s has said. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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