Walter Fry wrote,
>I cant seem 2 find where to enter the commands such as grep..... I'm in
>wordpft8 on fedora 2.6.5-1.358 in text mode and trying to save the doc. to a
>USB FLOPPY when rebooting the fdd activity led's emitt so Iknow the usb
>driver is there, it just is'nt found by wp8
For entering commands like grep, you'll need a terminal window. Search
your menus for for one of these names:
gnome-terminal
konsole
eterm
xterm
rxvt
At least one of these should be available somewhere.
As for saving stuff on a floppy from Word Perfect...the WP save file
dialog box just uses the UNIX file system...it makes no attempt to find
your floppy drive and give it a distinctive name like "A:". This means
you have to know the UNIX pathname where your floppy lives. Usually this
ls "/mnt/floppy" or something similar.
However, before you can see your floppy under /mnt/floppy, you'll have to
mount it. Normally you do this by typing "mount /mnt/floppy". But that
only works if you have an entry for your floppy drive in /etc/fstab...once
you find your terminal window, try this command:
cat /etc/fstab
If you don't see anything about floppies in there, then you'll have to
roll your own fstab entry. There may be a utility somewhere on your
system to do this for you, but if not, it's not too hard to do it by
hand...just open up /etc/fstab in a text editor, and add a line like this:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
The only problem is that this line (copied from my own system) is for a
standard PC floppy, not a USB floppy. For USB, you'll need to change
"/dev/fd0" to whatever device your USB floppy is...somebody else will have
to help here, since I'm not a Linux USB expert.
Then you'll have to make sure the proper USB driver modules get loaded.
This can be made to happen transparently if you put the proper stuff in
/etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf...again, somebody else will have
to help here.
Is this the same laptop that was causing all the trouble with Mandrake
recently?
- Neil Parker
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