BitingBird quoted: >> Though the floppy drive is visible in 'my computer' no floppy can ever >> be seen. The select light on the drive does come on when expected -- >> if I try to open the drive with a disk inserted, for example -- but >> the status is always 'no medium.' >> The drive works fine under Win XP when I boot from the HDD in the >> usual way.
And commented: > OK... you're really trying to read floppy disks? When security is an issue isn't there something to be said for a medium for moving data around that's eraseable in various ways with various degrees of finality AND cheap enough for routine physical destruction to be an option if desired? > No idea. Tails is based on Debian stable (Wheezy), so you should check > if it works in Debian. Doing a fast search, I found ... Tails (Debian ...) sees a floppy drive or at least shows an icon for one. It selects the device (light comes on) when an action is requested -- like 'open,' by double clicking, etc. However it is unable to tell that the device HAS a disk and responds with a 'no medium' message. I did, however, find this, which SEEMS to have the answer -- but in Linux-ese. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=9103 I know where to find the command line, but the commands are rejected -- 'permission denied.' I've no idea whose permission I might need -- it's my system. I don't have time to make Linux a project. Either I can get Tails to work for ordinary net surfing with a few hours of work -- actually I've already got that in it due to another couple of problems that I managed to get past -- or I can't, and perhaps I'll try again in another couple of years. That means I'll have to ask a couple of 'Tails support for the non-Linux user'-type questions. I appreciate any help you have time for on this. Walt Hutchens _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
