From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Subject: Re: Accessing the A Drive - OpenOffice 1.1 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:42:35 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20040115171632.01f0df48@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20040115171632.01f0df48@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 05:09 PM 1/15/2004 -0800, Dave wrote: > >> I can't figure out how to access the A drive. I have a document saved >> to a disk in my A drive (3 1/2 floppy) and now I want to open it from >> OpenOffice 1.1. >> >> What the heck am I doing wrong? (Maybe my A drive is not recognized >> by SuSE 9.0? > > > It's hard to tell you what you are doing "wrong" when you do not say > what you are doing in the first place. > > So ... try this. > > 1. Put the floppy in the floppy drive. > > 2. su to root (in an xterm or eterm, probably ... I surmise you are at > an X display). > > 3. Enter this command: > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > > 4a. If you get an error message at step 3 that you cannot interpret, > post it here (quote it exactly and completely, please) and we'll try to > help. (For example, SuSe 9.0 neither recognizes nor does not recognize > "drive A". Particular Linux kernels will or will not have support for > the floppy device itself, and will or will not have support for the > msdos filesystem on a normal floppy made on a Windows host. The error > message will tell you, or us, whether you have one of these problems.) > > 4b. If you do not get an error message at step 3, enter this command: > > ls -l /mnt > > 5a. If you get an error message at step 4b that you cannot interpret, > post it here (quote it exactly and completely, please) and we'll try to > help. > > 5b. If you do not get an error message at step 4b, you should see your > file listed as part of the response to that command. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > Ray steps 3 and 4b worked great and I can see my files listed witheh ls -l /mnt command. So now to I use copy commands to move the file back and forth to the hard drive so I can work with it in OpenOffice? or is there a way now to access the A drive from OpenOffice? I guess I was expecting that OpenOffice would give me the option of saving to the hard drive or to a floopy like Windows does. Is that not the case? BTW, thanks for the line by line instructions. That would have taken some time to put together and I appreciate your time and help. Dave -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "So many electrons and so little time!!" 73 K6DBH Dave Also at, K6DBH@ARRL.net . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs