USB a: drive

[Spazegun2213]

Ok, now in my new location i am trying to Install RH7.3 to a laptop...eww i know. but it has a USP floopy drive and int eh /etc/fstab there is no floppy.

should i add one, or what is up with the usb??

i need to copy some stuff to the a: drive.... but its not there.....

-Thanks

[michaelk]

If RH 7.3 was able to detect your USB floppy drive and created a device it will probably not be shown and a floppy drive. It will probably be sda1. If you have a CDRW in your laptop it might be sda2. Do you have anything in /etc/fstab like sda1 or sda2?

If not try mounting the device (as root)

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk

If that works then you can create /mnt/floppy and add a line in /etc/fstab

/dev/sda1 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user,umask=0 0 0

[Spazegun2213]

ok... for /etc/fstab
/dev/hda3 swap
/dev/cdrom (the usual)

ok... so there is nothing else, and when i plug in the drive, nothing happens (like in windows.. the little pop up thing.. but i dont know what happens in linux).

ok.. and i tryed to mount it.. nothing... then i tryed to add to fstab....... still nothing......

using some hardware monitor... it says there is a floppy in /dev/fd0 and i tryed to mount it... no luck.... also i looked in disk managment and there was not /dev/fd0??

this is very funny, Linux knows that there is a floppy.... and it has a mount point... but i cant mount it..

gfloppy dose not work..... grrr and i can view "usb devices" and its not there..........


hmmm...

any ideas?

thanks

[michaelk]

Nothing hard is ever easy ...
Since RH didn't detect the drive its time to do some investigation.
You might want to look for help here:
http://www.linux-usb.org/
And check and RH website for any help

Check dmesg to see if at anything is detected at bootup. Also check to see which usb modules are being load. Look to see if usb-storage is being loaded.

[Spazegun2213]

ok, in dmesg, i see that there is an "ide-floppy friver 0.99. newbie"

and 2 lines under that
"Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M"

the only thing that comes close to the floppy in the usb-c is:
"hub.c: USB new device connect on bus 1/2, assigned device number"

and

"usb.c registering new driver hiddev"

the reason why i need the disk is I'm running XP on ntfs and i want to dual boot with nt boot (because XP overrides GRUB). And at the moment I'm using "vmlinuz root=/dev/hdxy"

I checked teh RH website iand i cant find much at all.... but then again this is on a compaq laptop :(

[michaelk]

Just reverify that you don't have any devices like /dev/sda

[Spazegun2213]

nope... no sda anything