[olug] Kubuntu and floppy and external drives

[Rob Townley]

Joe,

Have you tried accessing the floppy drive with a formatted floppy disk
fully inserted in the drive?
do not know if i could help much, but why don't you do the following
at your favorite linux prompt:

$ script
$ mount
$ mount -a
$ cat /etc/fstab
$ cat /etc/mtab
$ fdisk /dev/usb0  #choose p to print out the usb partition table
$ exit

and attach the resulting typescript file in a posting.

On 2/14/06, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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