Floppy Icon in Suse

Poetics · 09-11-2004, 12:38 PM

Do you have a disk in the drive? You may have had an icon created for /media/floppy, but it doesn't look like anything is mounted there.

Scratchit · 09-11-2004, 01:10 PM

Hi Poetics

Yes, disk in drive

Cheers

mykrob · 09-11-2004, 04:11 PM

that's an easy one! Make a folder called floppy inside the media folder. You need to do this as root. In the console, type "su", then supply your root password, then type:

Code:

md /media/floppy

the "md" means "make directory", the rest is sefl explanitory.
This should do it

-myk

Scratchit · 09-12-2004, 01:08 AM

Yeeeeess!!!

That's done the trick mykrob, made the folder, had to re-boot before it would work though. Now all I need to do to read the floppy is click on the Icon in My computer /drives.

Thanks a lot to all who helped!!!!

mykrob · 09-12-2004, 08:03 AM

Cool! Glad to see it working for you.

I guess you probably already found the application kfloppy for formatting? This will help you format the floppy in a way that its readable for linux and windows.

have fun

-myk

Scratchit · 09-13-2004, 02:00 AM

Hi mikrob

Yes, I found the formatting facility. Once again thanks for the help. I tried Fedora core 1 and Knoppix before but settled on Suse as being the easiest, or so or so I thought distro to use. Might try one of the 'Technical' distros in a year or two when I can get around Suse ;-)))

Cheers!!