> Apart from the trackball buttons working in a strange way, no access to > the floppy drive, no network connection to the other machine (the one with
I'm not sure how much you know about it, but you do know that removable media needs to be mounted? Sometimes this is taken care of for you, with something like automount. At a command prompt, type "ls /mnt" - this should give you a list of mount points. You should see "floppy" in there somewhere. type "mount" - you should see a list of devices and mount points. If you type "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" as root, it should mount the floppy as /mnt/floppy - now anything that you put into that directory will end up on the floppy drive. Unix doesn't really have a concept of drive letters like the CP/M-derived OSes have. Once you're done - and this is *VERY IMPORTANT* - you must type "umount /mnt/floppy" to unmount the disk. Notice that it is "umount" not "unmount" - I'm sure someone out there knows why. If you get an error like "Device is busy", that's because you're still in /mnt/floppy, or something is holding a file on the floppy open. A good old favourite for that is going into /mnt/floppy, trying to copy something to the floppy, realising you're not root and using "su" to go root, then changing directory back out of the floppy, because your original user is still in there. If you're stuck, log out and log back in again. Hope this helps, and doesn't confuse you too much. I'm sure someone will be able to demonstrate on Thursday. Gordon. _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
