Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Nils Philippsen) | Subject | Re: It won't let me format a floppy!!!And netscape news doesn't work.... | Date | 26 Sep 1996 16:28:16 GMT |
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root (atracey@ldd.net) wrote: : root : atracey@ldd.net : When I try to format a floppy I will type 'fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440' and : it will say 'no such device'.I checked and there is a /dev/fd0H1440 file. : What gives?And if I try to mount it by typing ' mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt' : and it will say '/dev/fd0 is not a block device.What should I put in
Seems like You didn't compile floppy-support in the kernel, the device-file is there but there's no device supported by the kernel corresponding to it
: /etc/fstab??I was also wondering how to use netscape news.It will connect : to the news server fine but I can't get it to list all of the news groups( : there's about 15,000 of em').I have a Gateway2000 p5-100 with 8 megs of : RAM and a 28800 data/fax modem on cua0 running linux slackware 3.0 and : win95(I used win95 to post this; I was that desperate!) if all of that : helps.I would be very thankful if someone could please help me.My e-mail : is atracey@ldd.net.
: Thanks for taking the time to read this, : Andrew(root)
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