On Sunday 06 March 2005 3:42 pm, Chris wrote:
Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev
fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: FAT: invalid media value (0xf6)
Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on
dev fd0.
Mar 6 17:35:17
On Sunday 06 March 2005 06:32 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
On Sunday 06 March 2005 3:42 pm, Chris wrote:
Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev
fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: FAT: invalid media value (0xf6)
Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 3:02 am, mike wrote:
What does mtab say cat /etc/mtab here is mine below.
none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,
umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
Also see what ls -al /mnt/floppy here is mine below.
drwxrwxrwx 0
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 3:02 am, mike wrote:
What does mtab say cat /etc/mtab here is mine below.
none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,
umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
Also see what ls -al /mnt/floppy here is mine below.
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root
On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote:
This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits
end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months
so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a
nutshell, is that I can not write to my floppy or CD-R
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote:
This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits
end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months
so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a
nutshell, is that I can not write to my
On Monday 05 July 2004 22:53, Rich wrote:
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote:
This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my
wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4
months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote:
This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits
end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months
so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a
nutshell, is that I can not write to my
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 18:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:05, John Richard Smith wrote:
I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so
it has always been in my systems. On some it works
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 1:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 18:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:05, John Richard Smith wrote:
I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:34, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 1:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 18:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:05, John Richard Smith wrote:
I am coming
On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:38, David A. Ferguson wrote:
Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters
mean.
But, here is a copy of my floppy fstab line and some comments.
MINE none /mnt/floppy supermount
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:38, David A. Ferguson wrote:
Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters
mean.
But, here is a copy of my floppy fstab line and some comments.
MINE none /mnt/floppy
On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:05 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:38, David A. Ferguson wrote:
Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters
mean.
But, here is a copy of
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:05, John Richard Smith wrote:
I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so it has
always been in my systems. On some it works on others it doesn't.
HTH
Easyest wayI found was to # out the entries for supermount floppies and
replace
On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:05, John Richard Smith wrote:
I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so
it has always been in my systems. On some it works on others it
doesn't.
HTH
Easyest wayI found was
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:05, John Richard Smith wrote:
/
I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so it has
always been in my systems. On some it works on others it doesn't.
HTH
Easyest wayI found was to # out the entries for supermount
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:34, David A. Ferguson wrote:
I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except
read
it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a
'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get it
to
work
From: rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:34, David A. Ferguson wrote:
I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE
except
read
it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get
a
'permission denied' message. Anyone have
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:38, David A. Ferguson wrote:
Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters
mean.
But, here is a copy of my floppy fstab line and some comments.
MINE none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0
YOURS none /mnt/floppy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read
it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a
'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get it to
work
Rich
Is the disk write
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:34, David A. Ferguson wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read
it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a
'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 12:48, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:44, Richard Urwin wrote:
Bring up a terminal
su
type the root password, get the # prompt
kwrite
finish what you want to do
exit
Thanks for the tip!
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 00:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since installing Mdk10 CE on both of my computers I've had a problem
accessing the floppy drive. I can mount and read the drive but can't
copy to/from it, there is an input/output error message. This
happens however I'm logged in as owner
in konqueror after i load a floppy, if i put a new one, what will
appear will be the same conteud of the 1º first floppy
how to fix?
Sounds like a mounting issue.
If you use a file manager, you might need to refresh, or maybe go up
to the next level and then back down into the floppy?
Just a
I have the same problem with Mdk 9.0. My impression is that the
supermount causes this. Previous Mdk versions (whithout supermount) did
not have this problem. You can disable the supermount through the MCC
though.
Cheers,
Andrei
it takes about a minute to open floppy; while opening
it,
On Sunday 02 June 2002 10:57 am, you wrote:
Hi,
I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot
mount a floppy. Any suggestion??
cheers
/giannis
Giannis--
I had a similar problem and found the the solution on the Frankenlinux page
about fstab:
On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:57 am, you wrote:
Hi,
I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot
mount a floppy. Any suggestion??
cheers
/giannis
You may not have permission as user. Go to a console and type in su and
then enter your root password. Then at the
Dennis Myers wrote:
On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:57 am, you wrote:
Hi,
I 've installed mandrake 8.2 everything works fine so far, but I cannot
mount a floppy. Any suggestion??
cheers
/giannis
You may not have permission as user. Go to a console and type in su and
then enter your root
--- KMReid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im trying to create a floppy boot disk using
Drakfloppy. A new floppy is already inserted in the
drive. When Build Disk is selected, the error is:
Be sure media is present for /dev/fd0. Then when
OK
is selected, the error message is: no medium
On Fri, 24 May 2002 20:38:46 -0700 (PDT)
KMReid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I_m trying to create a floppy boot disk using
Drakfloppy. A new floppy is already inserted in the
drive. When Build Disk is selected, the error is:
_Be sure media is present for /dev/fd0_. Then when OK
is selected,
On Friday 24 May 2002 10:38 pm, you wrote:
Im trying to create a floppy boot disk using
Drakfloppy. A new floppy is already inserted in the
drive. When Build Disk is selected, the error is:
Be sure media is present for /dev/fd0. Then when OK
is selected, the error message is: no
Thats a known problem.
Check this out
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3
and http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1299lang=en
For some reason this problem does not appear on the list of known problems
linked from the Mandrake Forum site, so I had to dig a bit to find the
Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=-,
I am having a problem getting my floppy drive working. This is
what I have in my /etc/fstab
/dev/fd0 /mnt/flopy auto user,
iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
My fstab line is exactly the same, and the floppy works.
However do you need to
Frans Ketelaars wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:24:30 +1100
Colin Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
just finished installing lm8.1, and like others, can't mount the
floppy.
cd and internal zip drive work ok, and I have read all the post I can
find, but nothing seems
Where are you putting the nobiospnp statement?
You need only put it into the stanza you are actually going to boot from,
which in your case is the stanza headed 'linux'
derek
On Sunday 13 January 2002 16:14, you wrote:
I'm sorry to keep bothering you, but none of my attempts at getting
my
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Derek Jennings wrote:
Where are you putting the nobiospnp statement?
You need only put it into the stanza you are actually going to boot from,
which in your case is the stanza headed 'linux'
In the ones headed linux, failsafe and floppy.
Want to buy your Pack or
On Thursday 27 December 2001 09:13 pm, you wrote:
I can't mount /dev/fd0
and my log file say:
Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f7 in use
Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97
Looks like
Op Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:52:15 -0500 schreef Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thursday 27 December 2001 09:13 pm, you wrote:
I can't mount /dev/fd0
and my log file say:
Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f7
On Saturday 29 December 2001 10:05 am, you wrote:
Op Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:52:15 -0500 schreef Gerald Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thursday 27 December 2001 09:13 pm, you wrote:
I can't mount /dev/fd0
and my log file say:
Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Dec 24
On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:09 pm, you wrote:
On Saturday 29 December 2001 10:05 am, you wrote:
Op Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:52:15 -0500 schreef Gerald Waugh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thursday 27 December 2001 09:13 pm, you wrote:
I can't mount /dev/fd0
and my log file say:
Dec 24
On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:29 pm, you wrote:
On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:09 pm, you wrote:
On Saturday 29 December 2001 10:05 am, you wrote:
Op Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:52:15 -0500 schreef Gerald Waugh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thursday 27 December 2001 09:13 pm, you wrote:
I can't
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. Anywayhere goes..
I right click on the desktop and go
Ville V Sinkko 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:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:28:31 -0500
Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ville V Sinkko 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
Thanks for the replies. I got the Zip drive working with a friend's
assistance (modprobe ppa, whatever THAT is, plus additions to
/dev/fstab and /etc/modules).
The floppy drive still refuses to be acknowledged. /dev/fstab has a perfectly
correct-looking entry for it. The dmesg log features this
Charles A Edwards wrote:
As well as what ver of Man you are using the proper solution can, if
you are running 8.1, be dependent upon wheather you did a clean install or
an upgrade.
What type of zip are you using, ide, pp, or USB?
How is it listed in harddrake?
Your /etc/fstab could have
you aren't unmounting the first disk before removing it, you need to do this,
right click on the icon and choose 'unmount' (in kde anyway)
bascule
On Thursday 29 Nov 2001 2:51 am, you wrote:
I did a fix to get my floppy drive working. Now I have just one more
question about it. When I click
Yep, I'm a dummy. Thanksit's been really bothering me.
- Original Message -
From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy drive question
you aren't unmounting the first disk before removing
Andre Dubuc wrote:
I'd like to have the ability, on bootup, of choosing Floppy. Unfortunately,
I had deleted the original entry in lilo.conf for LM8.
After an extensive search on the Net, I can't seem to find an example of how
to do it. I don't want to mess up Lilo another time. Would
Hi Charli,
Take a look at http://www.toms.net/rb/
There will be many 1 floppy linux links.
Personaly I use in the moment freesco.
It's a single floppy router/firewall.
But on that site are more other linux distributions, who are not so big and
wil fit on floppy's.
Goodluck!
Draconis
the url.
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David E. Fox
Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 1:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy distro
Anyone know where I can find a Linux distro
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Draconis
Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 3:27 PM
To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com
Subject: RE: [newbie] Floppy distro
Hi Charli,
Take a look at http://www.toms.net/rb/
There will be many 1 floppy linux links
Thanx Draconis and Sridhar for the response, and thanx also to anyone
else who responded andI haven't read yet. I downloaded this one
"tomsrtbt-1.7.361.dos.zip#uzip" last night, but I also need to put DOS
on the 486 to install it. I also downloaded DR. DOS. This would not be a
problem, except
Anyone know where I can find a Linux distro that will fit on a floppy.
It seems like I heard about this somewhere, but can't seem to find one
I think the Tom's Root-Boot disk set can fit on a floppy (or two). Ob-
viously there's not a whole lot that can be stuffed onto one or two
floppies, but
A little trick I learned, from a command line:
supermount -i disable
Reboot
Locks should be gone.
Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in supermount?
jim
Quoting Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What does your fstab look like for your floppy drive and cdrom? I had the
to post,
and now I can't find it. I'll post it tonight, if that's OK...
-Original Message-
From: James S Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:05 PM
To: Donnie Green
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not
A little trick I
Thanks to both of you, I will try those tips.
What is supermount? What is it trying to do?
What will disabling it do to my system? What functionality
will I lose, and how can I replace it, or work around it's
loss?
Supermount is a nice feature of Linux (not sure if it is mandrake
I don't know if this helps,
My CD and floppy behave just as you describe when the drives are empty (ie
Input/Output error, you do not have access rights, little padlocks showing)
However when I insert media into the drive the locks go away and everything
works fine.
My fstab lines are:-
Right. And that's what mine do when supermount is working. Sometimes, though,
it does not and those locks do not come off. When supermount is disabled, I
never see locks.
jim
Quoting Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I don't know if this helps,
My CD and floppy behave just as you describe
: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not
A little trick I learned, from a command line:
supermount -i disable
Reboot
Locks should be gone.
Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in
supermount?
jim
Quoting Donnie Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What does your fstab
On Sunday 12 August 2001 23:04, James S Bear wrote:
A little trick I learned, from a command line:
supermount -i disable
Reboot
Locks should be gone.
Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in
supermount? jim
Supermount was written for the 2.2 kernel and
kaab kaoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
how to access the floppy in a root account
i do in my ow account, where there is an icon in the desktop where we can
access the floppy!
Thanks
==
Open a console and type mount /mnt/floppy w/o the quotes.
Before removing
if your floppy is supermounted ( works in a fashion simillar to windows, most
mandrake installs set this up so it probably is) then u just navigate to
/mnt/floppy and the contents of that folder are your floppy
On Monday 30 April 2001 16:14, Michael Scottaline wrote:
kaab kaoutar [EMAIL
Hello again,
I went in as single user and deleted about 250 Mb of files, and it booted
up fine. When I got in, I ran a df command and it said I had 660Mb left on
/ and about the same on /home. Now, when I rebooted yesterday, I get the
exact same error messages as before and I have not
I just had a similiar problemtwo days agowith my Linux4Windows. First my mouse went a little screwy then my monitor went into suspend mode. I reboot it through the reset button on my box and booted back into Linux. No problem. The next day I wanted to play and learn a little bit more of Linux but
On Monday 19 March 2001 11:34, you wrote:
/dev/hda6 FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED
mounting local filesystems: can't create lockFailed
can't create lockfile /etc/mtab~333: No space left on device Failed
It would seem that your filesystem for / is out of disk space. Very bad
things can happen if
Thank you very much Alan. I actually uninstalled thinking it was screwed up.
Seth Hanzik
From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy and Cdrom problems
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:11:32 -0800
Jake Hanz wrote:
Jake Hanz wrote:
htmlDIV
PThank you very much Alan. I actually uninstalled
thinking it was screwed up./P PSeth Hanzik/P/DIV
DIV/DIV
DIV/DIVgt;From: Alan Shoemaker
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] DIV/DIVgt;To:
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DIV/DIVgt;Subject: Re: [newbie
Jake Hanz wrote:
Does anybody klnow why when I installed Mandrake 7.2 my
floppy and cdrom are locked, even to root! Mandrake 7.1
works fine, but 7.2 has got some issues with my drives.
Help!
Linux Lunatic
a.k.a. Seth Hanzik
Seththat's a normal mount point for 'supermount'ed
devices.
How goes it for you? I've not had time to try yet.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/
Will tell you step-by-step on a CDRW, including fixing the bad link made by
kudzu.
Thanks!
I'll try it next time it happens...
--Original Message--
From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 23, 2000 4:40:37 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [newbie] floppy problems
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, a r wrote:
Sometimes it won't read new discs that I insert. It doesn't
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, a r wrote:
Sometimes it won't read new discs that I insert. It doesn't even click and
the light goes on.
Is there a way to "refresh"?
Supermount is in control of it normally but I tried the mount command just
in case. Unfortunately the response was "floppy already
Maybe you may want to try this configuration for the
floppy on the /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0TAB/mnt/floppyTABautoTABuser,noauto 0 1
note:dont write TAB, just leave a tab space between each
column.
This is my configuration and it works fine.
Try also to check the /atc/mtab file to see if the
wrong fs type=wrong format
bad option=typo
bad superblock=???
too many mounted file systems=you have loads of partitions or drives.
- Original Message -
From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:26 AM
Subject: [newbie] floppy problems
Are you using the icon on the desktop? Maybe the auto-mount ain't workin'
quite right.
In terminal, su to root, and type:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
then cd to /mnt/floppy and ls.
If it stalls in terminal there's something else wrong. But if it works, then
your auto-mount is broken.
the following is what it says. hope its of help
mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy
mount: according to mtab, /mnt/floppy is already mounted on /mnt/floppy
[root@localhost ketchup]#
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote:
Are you using the icon on the desktop? Maybe the auto-mount
In terminal, try unmounting the device... it may not have been unmounted for
some reason.
umount /dev/fd0
then try the mount command again, and see what happens.
--Greg
- Original Message -
From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the following is what it says. hope its of help
Glenn Johnson wrote:
Hey all. I have question about the floppy drive. Why is it that I can read
floppy disks formatted for DOS/Windows but I cannot read and Linux disks,
not even my Linux boot disk?
-- Glenn Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #175132
Powered by
Andrew Moore wrote:
Hi I posted a message earlier but this was before I was completely up to
spead on the mailling list. Maybe a response has already been post. I
using Mandrake 7.1 and on a machine that had been using Redhat 6.0.
Under Redhat my floppy worked (not my zip drive). When I
fikov" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 9:04 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Floppy Drive problem
Thanks, Charles
You mean, when it is listed as "communication device" (just a my case),
there are no way to get modem working in Linux
Rgds.
Boulat
-
If you have replaced your normal floppy drive with an LS120 and disabled floppy
in BIOS it will hang if you try to access it - I found out the hard way. I have
posted a reply to someone else about setting up LS120's - When it gets posted
it may help you
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Hi,
my
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, sean F wrote:
Well share the wealth! What if some else has the same
problem?
I had used tar to archive some files on a floppy. I hadn't known that I didn't
need to mout the floppy drive to access the archived files. It seems that tar
does that automatically.
Michelle
First, is the floppy formatted VFAT, or ext2? Now, proceed:
1) at a console, type "mount -t VFAT /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (replace "VFAT"
with "ext2" if your floppy is formatted ext2)
2) now browse the /mnt/floppy directory and you should see all the files on
your floppy. If you see the files,
In case you didn't get a reply already to this.
from the console enter "modprobe zftape" (minus the quotes) then fire up taper.
Regards
Dan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again!,
I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to
configure for Linux. I have
I suggest taking a look at the ftape How-to. The URL is:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html
HTH,
Matt
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Subject: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Hi again!,
I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to
configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old
program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that has
been ported to
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999,Joe Marcom wrote:
| Good day, all:
| My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount
| and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I
| only get the error message: " KFM error - could not mount mount: you
| must specify
You need to put some media in the drive before you mount it.
John the Nadger
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Good day, all:
My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount
and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I
only get the error message:
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Good day, all:
My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount
and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I
only get the error message: " KFM error - could not mount mount: you
must specify the file system type."
"Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24-Jul-99 Don Whitman wrote:
It would only let me type that command as root. But it did mount the
floppy.
There has got to be a better way to work with a floppy.
Don
Well, it's not normal behavior (it only gave me that problem on one occasion
On 24 Jul 1999, Don Whitman wrote:
"Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24-Jul-99 Don Whitman wrote:
It would only let me type that command as root. But it did mount the
floppy.
There has got to be a better way to work with a floppy.
Don
Well, it's not normal
Don Whitman wrote:
I have some floppy questions. I am able to mount a floppy disk if it is a DOS
disk. I even was able to pull up some JPG images off a DOS disk. I reformated
a 1.44 disk using Kfloppy to the ext2 file system. When I try to mount this
floppy I get an error messages stating;
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