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Posted: Mar. 21 2004,18:00 QUOTE
Why won't any of these work.  I have searched any file that seemed relevant, but none of them have the files in them.  I even put a cd player I downloaded to play the cd when it is inserted, but nothing happens when I put a cd in.  It's like the computer does'nt even recognize them.
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Posted: Mar. 21 2004,19:07 QUOTE
Have you heard of mounting? You need to do that first before you can access your drives. For instance, to mount a floppy:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Then access it at /mnt/floppy.
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Posted: Mar. 21 2004,20:46 QUOTE
When I do that it gives me a message that says...
root@box:/home/damnsmall# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
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Posted: Mar. 21 2004,23:17 QUOTE
I can mount the floppy drive to /floppy, but I cannot read anything in the folder, or write anything into the folder.
Also, how do you unmount a folder(what is the command).  I tried umount but it said that the unmount command was not found.
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Posted: Mar. 22 2004,10:30 QUOTE
1.) From the menu click on enhance >icons etc.
2.) Use mount.app that appears in the slit to mount your devices
3.) that should get you fixed

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