mount floppy, and use the mouse

rinux · 05-22-2003, 09:14 AM

hello,

i am a new bie, having to problems the first is mounting the floppy disk

the second is using the mouse as scince i installed linux the mouse is working horizontally only in the graphical mode

plz, HELP

whansard · 05-22-2003, 11:12 AM

mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

umount /mnt/floppy
before you try to take it out.

masand · 05-22-2003, 12:35 PM

what error does it give
do u have a entry in ur '/etc/fstab' abt. ur floppy

rinux · 05-23-2003, 07:25 AM

THANKS it worked i don't know why wasn't it working before i was using the same command

, anyway what about my poor mouse

i tried all the kinds in mouseconfig but they didn't work the problem is that it is moving horizontally only.

Ian_Hawdon · 05-24-2003, 12:30 PM

try "xf86config"