Thank you, Mr. Toresson! This little point about the usb drive was the little hint I needed to get me doing more appropriate google searches. I then changed the floppy line in /etc/fstab to the following, which did the trick (I naively had /dev/fd0 before):
/dev/sda /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 cyp Alexander Toresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cyprian Laskowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a Dell Inspiron 1150, with one of these external floppy drives. >> The floppy drive works fine under windows xp, and I also used it >> without problems when installing debian the first time. However, >> debian linux is not recognizing it. > > I think we'd need more info to help you. Is it an usb drive? If so, you need > the appropriate usb driver. Is it running as a native floppy? Then there's > a real problem > > Regards, Alexander Toresson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
