Subject: Re: floppy & zips
From: Vanja (vanjab@UDel.Edu)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 11:43:40 MST
John Boyarsky wrote:
>
> Any ideas on how to get the floppy drive to work in KDE? The only
> utility i can find is KFloppy, and that is for erasing disks. When i try
> erasing a disk already in the drive, i get an error that there is no
> such device.
>
> In Gnome, on the other hand, i was able to get the floppy and CD icons
> put on the toolbar, but when i try loading a floppy i get a warning of
> the like " error >2>1 msdos not compiled in the kernel" for my dos
> formatted floppy. Nor can i format it.
>
> I would like to get a floppy to work because I don't have internet
> access on my home box, the one with YDL, so I downloaded Mac-On-Linux &
> some other utilities at school and am trying to get it into my home box.
>
> Any ideas?
I use it manually - mount /mnt/floppy
That will work if you have set up the /etc/fstab correctly.
to unmount use 'eject /mnt/floppy'
Zip I haven't used yet.
As for the screen settings, I will try to see exactly what I am doing on
my computer.
I'll let you know.
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