I've installed SUSE 6.3 on a Dell Inspiron 3700 laptop. The CDrom and floppy stations are removable, you can have _one_ of them in the machine at the time. In order to install from CDrom, I put that unit in and boot from it. Installation works fine, LILO works fine, no problem. Until I try to use the floppy station. Mounting causes Linux to "not recignize /dev/fd0 as a block device". I.e. nothing happens, and it suggests I install the proper module. I've tried floppy.o, which caused a "unit is busy", and ide-floppy.o, which went in without problem, but didn't cause the thing to start working. Current situation is: - If I boot from floppy, including with a SUSE bootdisk, I cannot access the harddisk. "Not a block device." - If I boot from the SUSE cdrom, I cannot access the harddisk, and that includes the root device the machine is perfectly capable of booting from. - If I boot from the harddisk, I can mount the cdrom, but not the floppy. The latter is "not a block device", in spite the disk in there being perfectly mountable on another (desktop) PC. My guess is that because there isn't a floppy station in there when I install from cdrom, yast2 doesn't detect it, and therefore doesn't install support for it. No network on the machine. I'm stymied. Help, anyone? Cheers, Bjørn bjornts@mi.uib.no -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/