Walt Hutchens: > Tails 1.3 booted on a Dell Dimension 3000 from a DVD. It seems to > work fine -- can access the web via TOR, etc. HOWEVER ...
Great. > Though the floppy drive is visible in 'my computer' no floppy can ever > be seen. The select light on the drive does come on when expected -- > if I try to open the drive with a disk inserted, for example -- but > the status is always 'no medium.' > The drive works fine under Win XP when I boot from the HDD in the > usual way. OK... you're really trying to read floppy disks? > I'm guessing that this means that this Mitsumi drive isn't supported > by this version of Linux? There must be a list of supported devices > somewhere? No idea. Tails is based on Debian stable (Wheezy), so you should check if it works in Debian. Doing a fast search, I found http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/can%27t-get-my-external-usb-floppy-drive-to-detect-media-4175510073/ so you should test their recommandations. > Or am I all wet on this? I've learned a new english expression :) Cheers, BitingBird _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
