Hello, everyone. No big deal as yet but I wanted to put a copy of GRUB on a floppy disk if one it should one ever be needed. I placed a floppy in the disk drive but just get the error referred to in the attached screenshot. Basically, I cant access the floppy at all. Thanks in advance, David.
Thanks, AT. Please see newly-attached screenshots for what I get when I type 'kate /etc/fstab' in a terminal window. David. EDIT: Just as a matter of interest, the problem with the floppy disk drive, I've now discovered, only seems to be n via KDE. I've just switched my Ubuntu partiton from the KDE desktop back over to GNOME and I'm now able to read, write and format floppy disks - no problem! Can't say I understand what's going on here, in that a different desktop on the same OS could make a difference to a floppy drive working, but it seems to have. So, I guess that's the problem solved in an odd way.
depending on what your trying to achive this info may be useful to you DavidNW Edit: it tells you how to manipulate GRUB without using a floppy
Well, I spoke too soon saying I had 'solved' the problem of saving to floppy disks. Data appeared to be saved (I could see it under 'Properties' for the said floppy drive with the disk in it! However, on later re-insertion the disk was blank! Don't know what's going on here. When I go to '/media/fd0' via the command line, I get the following error message: david@Home:~$ cd /media/fd0 david@Home:/media/fd0$ dir dir: reading directory .: Input/output error david@Home:/media/fd0$ ................................................................................................................................... See previous screenshots for output of my 'kate /etc/fstab'. I must say to a newbie like me it looks pretty weird and not at all like I had expected it to look. Anyway, If anyone can advise, that would be good - otherwise I'll have to forget about any use of floppy disks for a while. Cheers, David.
Strange....make sure you unmount floppies before you take them out, as if the asynchronous option is set in the fstab it won't write changes until unmounted. And also, do you always use dir? You can use ls, which gives directory listings in colour.
Yes, I always use 'dir'. I guess it's because it was one of the few DOS commands that I could remember from days of old when working from the command line in Windows. However, 'ls' is 'prettier' as it's in colour, so thanks. I seem to have sorted of the issues with reading, writing and saving to floppies when working in Mandriva this morning - I just changed ownership of the drive to myself. I guess when I boot over into Ubuntu that those changes should apply to both KDE and GNOME, but I'll find out for sure later! Oh, I note what you say about changes possibly not being made until the drive is unmounted and I will take that onboard. Thanks, David.
