KDE SuSE user question

[mburke]

I know this is a simple question, but I looked all over the place and can't find the answer. I even looked at the suse users guide. I also poked all over the graphical disk browsing tools to.

How do you access the the floppy drive in KDE? And how do I format it for Linux? The floppys I have are FAT and KDE can't seem to read them.

[khp]

Originally posted by mburke
I know this is a simple question, but I looked all over the place and can't find the answer. I even looked at the suse users guide. I also poked all over the graphical disk browsing tools to.


Have you tried to(as root of course), create a directory /floppy for example, and then execute mount /dev/fd0 /floppy

Originally posted by mburke
And how do I format it for Linux? The floppys I have are FAT and KDE can't seem to read them.

mkfs -t type /dev/fd0
Where type can be ext2, msdos etc.

[mburke]

Well, I did the first command (as root) and it never returns, it seems to be hung up.

I tried the second command and I get "directory not found" :confused:

[khp]

Well, I did the first command (as root) and it never returns, it seems to be hung up.

Strange I've never seen mount hang.
Could you try running df -kl to see what filesystems are mounted.

I tried the second command and I get "directory not found"

Did it say what it couldn't find ?, it could be that it couldn't find /dev/fd0, but that would mean that your floppy device isn't mapped to /dev/fd0, which would be rather strange. On the other hand it could be that it can't find mkfs.ext2 or mkfs.msdos, which would mean that ext2 and fat might not be suppoted by the system. Could you try running locate mkfs. | grep bin this should give you a list looking something like this.
/sbin/mkfs.ext2
/sbin/mkfs.ext3
/sbin/mkfs.cramfs
/sbin/mkfs.msdos
/sbin/mkfs.vfat
/sbin/mkfs.jfs
/sbin/mkfs.reiserfs

Which tells us what filesystems are supported by the system.

[mburke]

I found the problem. It was a bad floppy disk. Win could not write to it either. The tab is set to read-write.

Thanks for the info :)

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