On Tuesday 29 January 2002 21:24, you wrote:
All,
I have just installed LM 8.1 and like it very much.
Except...I can't get my floppy disk working. I need
it under Vware to be able to boot into Win2k, and I
need it to be able to transfer files from one machine
to another. When I try to access it, it tells me fd0
is not a valid block device or something similar.
Below is a copy of my fstab
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto
0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto
0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto
0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat
iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat
iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
This is what I get when I try to mount the floppy
mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device]# mount floppy
mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device
Can anyone tell me what is going wrong?
Thanks,
Wayne
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chances are you just need to create a new floppy icon. Right click on the
desktop somewhere that there isn't an icon and a screen will pop up, choose
create new floppy device and a new screen will pop up. Click on the
Device tab. In the space to the right of device is a downarrow, click on it
and scroll to the /dev/fd0 and highlight that with the pointer. Then click
on the General tab and click on the floppy icon picture. This will give
you a choice of icons for the desktop. Pick one of the 3 floppy icons and
then click on OK. You will have a new icon on the desktop. Right click the
new icon, stick a floppy in the slot and click on mount. If the screen
doesn't pop up with the floppy files then left click on the new floppy icon
and it should open. HTH
--
Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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