Re: LS120 Drive

[nospam [at] janes.demon.co.uk (Matthew Collins)]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:15:07 +0900 (JST), Stephen J. Turnbull
<turnbull [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:

>sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
>>>>>> Richard == Richard <r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk> writes:
>
> Richard> In the floppy config I can see /dev/fd0 for the top
> Richard> slot and /floppy for the bottom slot. I've tried /LS120
> Richard> for the LS120 drive in here and that doesn't work.
>
>I assume you're root at the time?
>
>Mounting implies having something to mount _on_. Drop to a root
>shell, then do mkdir /LS120. Look at ls -ld /floppy, and adjust
>the protections and ownership of LS120 to suit. Return to KDE, and
>put /LS120 in the bottom slot. Report lack of help for this
>situation to KDE developers as a bug. There should be a bug-report
>form in the pull-down help menu. If there isn't one, report that as a
>bug too.[1]
>
>If you're already root and have an /LS120 directory, then I don't have
>any further suggestions.

Drop to a shell.

cd /
ls

see if you have a directory called mount, or mnt of something similar.

type

mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt

or whereever you want to mount it.

If that works then you're laffin.

Graphical tools are all very well, but you should brush up on the
basics first. It will increase your understanding of what the
graphical tools are doing and you won't feel as if it is all black
magic when it works.

ftp.demon.co.uk used to have some good documentation for newbe Unix/
Linux users. When I first got Linux I printed it out, and used to
refer to it often.
--
Matthew Collins

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