Floppy Not Installed? RED HAT 9
 

THIS IS IN REDHAT 9

I tried to mount the floppy but it didn't work. And I right clicked the desktop and went down to disk and the floppy wasn't there and I tried about a hundred differnent commands but i really didn't know where to type them. So I still don't have a floppy. I wanted to know how to install or configure a floppy drive.

:newbie: Help me please or :tisk: and
then I'll :cry: . And you guys will be
like :scratch: (woah this guys a quack)
lol anyways I need this floppy to work(I like smilies)

Don't know how RH organises their desktop, but down at the command line level everything should be pretty much the same. The Linux Cookbook has quite a useful section on using floppies:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/linuxcookboo...okbook_31.html

P.S. you enter commands at the prompt (usually a % or $) in a terminal window (also called a console, shell or xterm). I would think any desktop has a menu entry for starting such a thing.

For mounting/unmounting disks you typically have to be the superuser. Type 'su' at the prompt and give the root password. The prompt should change to a '#', indicating you now have superuser powers :eek:

One more thing -- if you have the 'mtools' package installed you may be able to access the floppy directly (assuming it is MSDOS format). This gives you equivalents of MSDOS commands: e.g. mdir, mdel, mcopy etc.