[olug] Kubuntu and floppy and external drives

[Joe Gulizia]

When I boot up (in Kubuntu) I get local filesystem
failed.  


Also
when installing Debian on the other Hard Drive I get
"Drives not mounted" then "no filesystem type found"
then
"You need to designate the filesystem type first."

How should these drives be formatted to be
readable....VFAT, Ext3, Ext2, etc.

HELP!

Thank you.
 
PS I know this....
 
I'm running Kubuntu 5.10 and I cannot access the
floppy drive or either external hard drives (WD 60 Gig
HD and SimpleTouch 160 Gig HD).

Here's what I know so far....

drwxr-xr-x   7 joe  root  4096 Feb  2 19:51 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 root root  4096 Jan 29 15:56 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root users    6 Jan 29 14:00 cdrom
cdrom0
drwxrwx---   2 root users 4096 Jan 29 14:00 cdrom0
drwxrwx---   2 root users 4096 Jan 29 14:00 cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root users    7 Jan 29 14:00 floppy
floppy0
drwxrwx---   2 root users 4096 Jan 29 14:00 floppy0
drwxrwx---   2 root users 4096 Jan 29 14:00 sda1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root users    4 Jan 29 14:00 usb usb0
drwxrwx---   2 root users 4096 Jan 29 14:00 usb0

I also cannot find them in "System" >> "Storage Media"
when I'm running as a normal user.  Do I need to
change owner using "chown"?

Thanks in advance.

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