Dave Houghton wrote: > Hi Kirk > Thank you for your reply really appreciated. > When I put the floppy disk in - nothing happens, no LED light - no turning > sound. If automount is not enabled in fstab, it won't attempt to mount a floppy. First thing is to open a terminal window and type : ls -al /dev/floppy if you get nothing, then try : ls -al /dev/fd*
If you get no files listed for either, then Ubuntu did not load the floppy driver. That will require some serious investigation. If the first command above showed a line like : lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Oct 21 12:37 /dev/floppy -> fd0 This shows that a link has been created from the name /dev/floppy to the real device, /dev/fd0 You don't have to worry about /dev/fd0, just use the link to /dev/floppy created for your convenience. type : sudo mkdir /mnt/floppy sudo mount /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy The first command only needs to be done once, it creates an empty file, known as a "mount point" for the floppy file system. The second command mounts the floppy file system, if it can be identified and matches one of the file systems built into your kernel and it's loadable modules, and connects that file system to the mount point /mnt/floppy Now, you can use any file browser, or in the command window type : ls -al /mnt/floppy and you should see your files. Before pulling the floppy out, ESPECIALLY important if you modified anything on there, use the command : sudo umount /mnt/floppy Note the sudo allows a suitable non-priveleged user to do privileged commands. You may need to supply your own user's password the first time you sue this, it will remember for a few minutes and not ask again. Generally, the Ubuntu install for EMC2 sets up the only user configured during the install to have sudo privilege. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
