When I installed 8.1 I had the same problem and had to create my own floppy icon on the desktop and it worked fine, then I deleted the original one.
Nev ====== Ralph Slooten wrote: >Well, I decided to reinstall, as I could not figure out what the problem >is, but even after a fresh install, my floppy drive does not work :-/ >Hasn't anyone has this problem yet? > >Whan I try mound the floppy, it just tells me it was unable to mount the >floppy drive, and when I click details, : mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device. > >Trying it in the shell does not work either: >mount /mnt/floppy/ >mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device > >I try the other floppy devices, but this has to be the one I need, as it's >just a standard 1044 floppy drive. > >I have for the sake of it re-reformatted my harddrive, this time without >connecting my new Logitech USB mouse, leaving my computer the way it has >always been, and still it didn't work :-( > >Maybe someone knows, or can explain just how this new system works with >8.1? > >Not that this is urgent today, but will be in the near future for me, so >again, any info would be appreciated. Can the rest of you using mandrake >8.1 connect to your floppies? > >Greetings >Ralph > > > >On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, 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 >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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