I'll tell you how I got my two systems floppys to work...... No command line stuff......... I'm a GUI Guy <grin>...... I just haven't had tons of experience with the command line......so I try to find ways to do things with KDE. Anyway----here goes..........
I right click on the desktop and go to <CREATE NEW>and then to <FLOPPY DEVICE>then I click the <DEVICE> tab and choose </dev/fd0 (/mnt/floppy)> then a NEW floppy drive icon appears on the desktop.......... and I delete the old one after making sure it works! I used the same procedure for creating shortcut icons for my ZIP drive and my CD rom............ and they all work. -- Dave Crouse Running Mandrake 8.1 IBM Intellistation E Pro 450 mghz 750 mb ram --------------------------------------------------------------- On Wednesday 12 December 2001 06:43 am, you wrote: > Two problems. > > 1. I can not mount the floppy drive. I have tried mount with every > conceivable parameter. Linuxconf says this <typos mine>: > > Executing: /bin/mount -t auto -o > exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 > /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy: > * mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device > * return 32 > > 2. How do I setup a ZIP drive? The only text on the subject that I > have found is in www.linuxdoc.org and it says I need to recompile > the kernel which is something I am never ever going to pull off. > Are there any other ways of doing it? > > > > /Cinquo
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