[Sheflug] Floppy prob, and a CD-R question

[Ruth Gunstone <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Back from the depths of work on my HND project, and now getting down to some
/real/ computing (again!).

My current setup is the Mandrake 8.1 distro, and I'm using the KDE desktop.
Appearing on the desktop is a "floppy-disk" icon. Clicking on this, I would
expect a window to open showing me the contents of the disc currently in the
drive (as works perfectly for the CR-ROM). Instead, a box opens saying
"mounting /mnt/floppy", then I get an error-message saying "..unsupported
action listDir". If I close the box and try again, I then get the message
"Could not mount device.... mount /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy
busy".

IF, however, I navigate to the floppy in a Konqueror window - root > mnt >
floppy, then all appears well. 

I'm puzzled. What could be wrong and how can I fix it?


Second Question (busy night!!):

I have an Acer CDW2010A CD re-writer. What software would you recommend I
obtain to make this work please? (hopefully, software that comes with
"instructions for the brain-dead" ;-))

Once I can burn CDs under Linux, I need never boot into Windoze again :-)))

Thanks in advance.....

-- 
Ruth Gunstone          (ruth at bolsterstone dot demon dot co dot uk)

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