Got USB zip drive and floppy? Can you replicate my problem?

[django]

In a previous post I describe my problems with respect to recognizing a fat32 partition
and a zip drive when booting using myconfig=scan.

If you have a floppy and a usb zip drive I would be grateful if you tried replicating
the problem so we can see if it is a bug, a feature, or a config setting and how common
it is.

To replicate the problem save a configuration to a linux formatted floppy, boot specifying the
floppy--floppyconfig if I recall correctly but do check if you don't know -- with
the zip drive plugged in, and see if the zip drive icon is on the desktop
or otherwise accessible. I can't write to or read from the zip drive if I boot using
myconfig=scan. It (and one of my Windows partitions that I created using QTPart)
don't even show up on the desktop. See my previous post for the gory details.

It would be progress to know if this is a feature of Knoppix or if there is a bug
with respect to my hardware or my configuration.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Django

[dvryknopper]

what version of knoppix are you using, and what type of hardware are you using, people would need to know that before they could replicate your problem. As for Qtparted, I couldn't help you out there because I had a bad experience with it so I just use cfdis

[django]

Thanks for the reply.

I'm running 4.0.2 on a Presario laptop.

I have since my last post solved the problem.

It appears that the fstab file Knoppix creates when saving its
configuration fixes the storage to be recognized when booting.
So since I apparently had no disk in the zip drive when I created
the config file and had created the fat32 partition after the config
file Knoppix didn't make them accessible when booting with
the myconfig=scan option.

My perhaps awkward solution was to boot without options,
redo all my config choices, and then save the new configuration.
(Attempting to mount the partitions as root had not succeeded.)

What problems did you have with QTParted? A few years ago
I stopped experimenting with Linux for a while when discrepancies with
block numbering between Linux and Windows almost destroyed a
hard disk I hadn't backed up recently enough. I was able to back out
of the situation but it left me loath to have Linux and Windows share
a disk.

[edited 10 June 2006: The problem appeared when I tried to resize
the Linux partitions after their initial creation. There was no problem
when I had just created them and used them. This was three or so
years ago so things may be different now.

And no reply required regarding your QTParted problems, I found
your iniitial post.]

Django