Hi; Here's the situation: I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a DVD, CDRW, and a floppy drive. The floppy and CDRW are switchable and only one can be in the system at a time. When I installed Mandrake 8.1, I installed it with the CDRW in.
Now, in order to take advantage of the vmware software package that I installed, I need to boot a virtual machine off the floppy in order to install a slave OS on it. However, Linux doesn't see the floppy when I switched it back and rebooted. There is a /dev/fd0 link pointing to /dev/floppy/0. When I access it either via msdir, dd, whatever, I get a "Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device". I have verified that the laptop itself sees the hardware by booting off the floppy. I'm suspecting a module didn't get built when I installed the OS with the CDRW. My next step, pending a resolution from this list, is to recompile the kernel and see if that fixes it. If that doesn't work, the only thing I can think of after that is to reinstall the OS. That sure seems like the Microshaft approach to troubleshooting though. Anybody have any ideas on how I might gain access to my laptop's floppy? Thanks for your time and help. Doug ------------------------- Douglas K. O'Leary Senior UNIX System Administrator -------------------------
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