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I have lost my floppy drive...
This problem from a complete newcomer to Linux
I am using the Knoppix CD very successfully and it is positively the best training tool for Linux I have come across yet.
I have set up my Internet, email etc and I have saved the Knoppix configuraion to 'knoppix myconfig on one of my partitions. It is great to be able to boot from the CD and find all my settings appear.
Somewhere along the line I have lost my floppy drive... I have an icon but when i click on it I get this message "Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/mnt/floppy does not exist".
I know that by loading the CD without the config I will recover my floppy but it will mean reconfiguring all the work I have done.
Is there anyway to fix my problem without resorting to a 'redo'
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I think that the knoppix KDE floppy icon is set up for the cd's automounter which isn't running after a hd install.
Right click on your desktop, and choose "Create New" then select "Floppy Device", then select the third tab "Device" now from the drop-down choose: "/dev/fd0 (mountpoint)"
mountpoint will differ on different systems, so just make sure to choose the device "/dev/fd0".
now you should have a floppy icon on your desktop that works.
rock
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Re: I have lost my floppy drive...
Originally Posted by
Ewen
Somewhere along the line I have lost my floppy drive...
Have you tried looking in the cabinet next to your desk?
Anyways, the mountpoint for floppy is /floppy under Knoppix.
btw, can you mount the device when logged in as root? Somewhere along the line of Knoppix3.2 they seem to have removed the user knoppix from the 'cdrom' and 'floppy' groups. How to add the user to the group is explained just some posts below this one.
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Thanks for the replies. I find that I can't make adjustments without the root password so I'll spend some time in the forum here finding out how to go about setting up passwords.
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try "sudo mkdir /mnt/floppy"
to set the root password :
sudo passwd root
to become root:
sudo su -
( or when you have set the root password )
su -
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