I had several suggestions to my problem on mounting a floppy drive with RH8.0 and for these, many thanks.
I've solved it (well, alright our sysop solved it). The fault was so subtle that I thought I'd post it: someone might benefit. I'd been given one of those free CDs from the front of a computing journal. I'd had trouble with CDRoast in the past and was glad to see an application that would do the trick. *However* the application required another application, called smake, which was duly FTP'd and installed. This was what was the matter. Smake made reference to the kernel that was in operation at the time (RH7.1). (I say "made reference" because I was looking over the shoulder of the sysop and he's a hard man to follow when he gets his tail up). When I installed RH8.0, I used "upgrade" rather than "fresh install" and the reference to the old kernel was kept. Which is what puzzled the sysop when he investigated: an occasional reference to this earlier kernel. Since I've backed up my files, the recommendation is a fresh installation and to use the CDRoast that comes with RH8.0 I hope this is of some use to someone. I suppose as a generic problem (holdovers from earlier kernels) it's nothing new. Was to me, though. Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
