[Eug-lug] usb floppy??

[Max Lemieux]

The floppy drive should appear in /dev as /dev/fd0 on most systems. Try "ls -l 
/dev/fd0" to see what you have. Then, try Mr O's good suggestions (reproduced here):

 > Those last few lines are what you want. Have you tried "mount
 > /mnt/floppy" with a disk in the drive as root?
 > Do a "ls -l /mnt/floppy" to see where it points to. You may also
 > try (if it's there) "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy"

Good luck!
-Max


walter freihube wrote:
> Thanks to Larry.."try  /dev/  the system replies /dev/ is a directory. 
> Jim showed me how to get to the console so I installed a Root password, 
> when I went to the root by the su command /dev/ got the opinion  Bash: 
> /dev/ is a directory   sadly this tells me nothing ...is there recourse 
> at all? What do I do now?
> 
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