I've been testing SuSE 8.0 - not bad, but a few rough edges. In the test machine the floppy drive turned out to be faulty, so it didn't put a floppy icon on the desktop. When I added one (right-click on desktop, Create New -> Floppy device) using the same parameters as on my 7.3 install (device /dev/fd0), it doesn't seem to work. Clicking on the icon opens a browser trying to go to RealNames. Mounting via the console give the message that /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. The floppy, however, does work OK in Windows on the same machine. The user is a member of the disk group. Any suggestions on what (probably obvious) thing I have missed? Kevin
Just on the offchance... Have you checked that your /etc/fstab file contains a line like /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 ? You can also test this with # mount /dev/fd0 JDL Kevin Donnelly wrote:
I've been testing SuSE 8.0 - not bad, but a few rough edges. In the test machine the floppy drive turned out to be faulty, so it didn't put a floppy icon on the desktop. When I added one (right-click on desktop, Create New -> Floppy device) using the same parameters as on my 7.3 install (device /dev/fd0), it doesn't seem to work. Clicking on the icon opens a browser trying to go to RealNames. Mounting via the console give the message that /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. The floppy, however, does work OK in Windows on the same machine. The user is a member of the disk group. Any suggestions on what (probably obvious) thing I have missed?
On Thursday 02 May 2002 7:10 am, John Lamb wrote:
Have you checked that your /etc/fstab file contains a line like /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
Ah, thank you. That takes me one step farther along. That line was missing, presumably because the floppy drive was dead at the original install. I have added it, and if I mount the drive manually and then click on it I can see the contents. However, clicking the drive icon when it is unmounted still opens the browser trying to go to RealNames, instead of the file manager and the contents of the disk (whereas clicking the CD icon, for instance, opens the file manager OK). Is there perhaps something that needs to be done with the automount demon? I can't believe that adding a floppy icon can be so arcane. Kevin
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