At 05:09 PM 1/15/2004 -0800, Dave wrote:Ray steps 3 and 4b worked great and I can see my files listed witheh ls -l /mnt command. So now to I use copy commands to move the file back and forth to the hard drive so I can work with it in OpenOffice? or is there a way now to access the A drive from OpenOffice? I guess I was expecting that OpenOffice would give me the option of saving to the hard drive or to a floopy like Windows does. Is that not the case?
I can't figure out how to access the A drive. I have a document saved to a disk in my A drive (3 1/2 floppy) and now I want to open it from OpenOffice 1.1.
What the heck am I doing wrong? (Maybe my A drive is not recognized by SuSE 9.0?
It's hard to tell you what you are doing "wrong" when you do not say what you are doing in the first place.
So ... try this.
1. Put the floppy in the floppy drive.
2. su to root (in an xterm or eterm, probably ... I surmise you are at an X display).
3. Enter this command:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
4a. If you get an error message at step 3 that you cannot interpret, post it here (quote it exactly and completely, please) and we'll try to help. (For example, SuSe 9.0 neither recognizes nor does not recognize "drive A". Particular Linux kernels will or will not have support for the floppy device itself, and will or will not have support for the msdos filesystem on a normal floppy made on a Windows host. The error message will tell you, or us, whether you have one of these problems.)
4b. If you do not get an error message at step 3, enter this command:
ls -l /mnt
5a. If you get an error message at step 4b that you cannot interpret, post it here (quote it exactly and completely, please) and we'll try to help.
5b. If you do not get an error message at step 4b, you should see your file listed as part of the response to that command.
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BTW, thanks for the line by line instructions. That would have taken some time to put together and I appreciate your time and help.
Dave
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