[Techtalk] Floppy how-to WAS: new floppy drive. All I get is error messages...

[Meryll Larkin]

1/5/03

Hi All,

I am an ambitious Linux newbie.  I am writing tutorials for myself as I 
learn how to do tasks (on my RedHat 8.0), so that I will better remember 
what worked.  I would love to have:

1.  Someone who is having difficulty try my step by step how-to and let 
me know if/where it failed for him/her so that I can make the how-to 
more complete (that would be you, Andrew).

2.  Others more expert than myself (hello Linux Chix) look over the 
article and let me know if I made any errors or forgot anything 
important (general suggestions are also welcome).

       http://www.alwanza.com/howto/linux/floppy.html

Meryll Larkin

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Meryll Larkin
http://www.alwanza.com
Perl Programmer - Web Developer - Linux Apache Admin
Seattle, WA, USA



Andrew wrote:
> Hi ALL,
> 	"Just put in a floppy drive. All I get is error messages,"
> 
> 	I have been looking and reading (Google) for days, I wrote this note over 
> that time it may be a little incoherent, please read carefully, I've tried 
> several things, all listed below, not necessarily in order presented. 
> 	I HOPE someone will see something I have not done. At this point I am 
> guessing it is not being "seen" by the kernel or something is not linked.  I 
> just don't know what else to try.
> 	This is a machine I put together in August, and my first hands on Linux 
> experience.  Coming from a Mac back round this PC, Linux stuff is a really 
> huge, learning experience. I could easily have over looked something basic.
> 
>         Just put in a floppy drive. All I get is error messages, about read 
> only or using the GUI, clicking on the desktop floppy icon, I was getting 
> permission denied, Now I get denied when using any of the GUI formating tools
> 	I got this message as root using GUI and as SU  in a terminal
> 	I would like to enable full floppy use for one at least one user, any user 
> even root would be nice.(-: haha 
> 	Did: cmod in MidComdr to every fdo fe and floppy file I could find in /etc 
> and /dev.
> 	Did: ls -l /dev/fd0  (it found) "date" and floppy/0
> 	Did: cat /var/log/kernel/info | grep floppy  (no reply or nothing found)
> 	IS THIS the problem???? 	
> 
> 	The only change after cmod is now clicking on the floppy icon opens Konqeror 
> with an empty window which is I think a good thing as the floppy is blank. 
> 
> 	BELOW is stuff I tried *before* doing cmod on every floppy file I could find 
> in /etc and /dev.................... 
> 
> Type Command in Cli "# /dev/fd0u1440 Read-only file system while setting up 
> superblock"  Error message.
> 	I tried GUI first then CLI, looked at several fixes in the archives, In /dev 
> there is a "fd"directory with files 1-plain text ,2-plain text,3-socket , 
> 0-character device. Also in /dev is a directory "floppy" with "+0u" "360 to 
> 1920"
>     One suggestion from the archives I have not done...put into: /etcfstab: 
> "/dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  ext2  noauto,user,exec 0 0"  The /etc/fstab looks to 
> be good as it was except, changed suid to nosuid and vfat to ext2.
> I am concerned the existing lines in /etc/fstab that includes "supermount" 
> and "user"  will be misconfigured or screwed-up. Should I go ahead and add 
> the command?
> 
> Tried this: 
> [root at Linux1 drew]# ls -l /dev/fd/
> total 0
> lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Jan  4 00:05 0 -> /dev/pts/1
> lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Jan  4 00:05 1 -> /dev/pts/1
> lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Jan  4 00:05 2 -> /dev/pts/1
> lr-x------    1 root     root           64 Jan  4 00:05 3 -> /proc/2584/fd/
> Then tried:
> [root at Linux1 drew]# cat /proc/2584/fd/
> cat: /proc/2584/fd/: No such file or directory
> cat
> 
>     Mdrk 8.2
> 
>         Andrew   
> 
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