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

[Pieter Meiring <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 June 2002 10:55 pm, you wrote:
> 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".

The desktop icon for the floppy in Mandraker 8.1 is broken. (Upgrade to 
8.2....??? It works for me under 8.2....)
>
> 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" ;-))
>

1. find out where the CD R/W is - i.e. is it IDE bus 0 or one, master or 
slave?
Bus 0 master = /dev/hda
Bus 0 slave = /dev/hdb
Bus 1 master = /dev/hdc
Bus 1 slave = /dev/hdd.

2. Once you know where it is add the following line to your lilo boot options 
for the kernel you intend to boot:
(e.g. assuming it is on /dev/hdd)

append="hdd=ide-scsi"

e.g. my complete default boot kernel section reads as follows:
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda3
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi"
        read-only
Yours will, of course, be slightly different.....

3. run lilo as root.

The CD R/W will now be accessible on /dev/scd0 after reboot.

I use xcdroast or gcombust - both part of Mandrake distros. xcdroast needs to 
be set up initially by running it as root after which it can be run as a user.


> Once I can burn CDs under Linux, I need never boot into Windoze again :-)))
>
> Thanks in advance.....

Good Luck

Pieter
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