Subject: Re:floppy & zips
From: John Boyarsky (jboyarsky@ftyukon.yfsd.schoolzone.net)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 01:27:09 MST
Vanja,
Am I to assume you mean use "mount /mnt/floppy" from the command line?
Yeah I'll try the zip some more this weekend, the Faq-O-Matic has some ideas.
>
> Vanja replied:
> >
> > 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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