--I have a Latitude also. The problem with hot-swapping the floppy and CD is (I think) the kernel doesn't get notified. I leave the CD in, and have the parallel-port adapter for the floppy. Here is a google link, you can probably find it for less:

http://www.laptopsetc.com/index.asp?...PROD&ProdID=61
http://www.jungleblurbs.com/dell/Flo...15003762.shtml

--If you boot with the Zip 250 plugged in, it should be /dev/sda4. You can confirm this with - as root - ' fdisk -l /dev/sd? '

Quote Originally Posted by z123
on the topic of hot swappable drives and whatnot I have a dell latitude, I have a number of drives that i would like to use on it.

Zip 250
CD-ROM
Floppy

Allready loaded it to the HD, that worked great. Can't praise enough the:

knx-hdinstall

command. That was so simple. And once I figured out that the swap file was number 82 it made life even easier. The only problem is when I'm on the desktop of knoppix I can't seem to hotswap the drives to access the floppy or the zip or the cd-rom. I have to reboot everytime to access the floppy or cd-rom, I have never gotten the zip to work on knoppix 3.2 yet.

Ideas on how to accomplish this would be great.