Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Floppy on EMC

Thanks for the help Paul!

Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Vance" <ccq@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Floppy on EMC


> On Sun Dec 16 06:52:24 2001, antson20022, <antson@...> wrote:
>
> >I want to thank Jon,Ian and Ray for all the help in getting my
> >monitor to work! Your advice was just what the doctor ordered. I
> >didn't know what to expect when running Linux for the first time. I
> >was surprised at the desktop and icons just like Windoze.It is set up
> >like I'm on the web with it. This particular computer will not be
> >hooked up on the internet. Just EMC ONLY. I like Linux better so far.
> >However I can forsee an endless number of questions that I need to
> >ask. First when I click on the floppy drive icon it tells me its
> >not "mounted" how do I mount it? When I take a file from CAD/CAM and
> >load it into EMC how do I do that? Is there a special way to some
> >extension on the file? Thanks in advance
> >
> >Tony
>
> Take a look in your /etc/fstab file. You'll find info about your drive
system,
> and the names the system uses to address them, (These can be edited), for
> instance from, "floppydrive0", to, "fd0", for brevity. Then type:
>
> mount /dev/fd0 <return>
>
> You then address the drive through, "/mnt/", like:
>
> ls /mnt/fd0 <return>
>
> or
>
> cd /mnt/fd0 <return>
>
> If you have trouble mounting the drive check the /mnt directory to see if,
> "fd0", is in there. If not, you'll need to make a link to the drive
there,
> though
>
> mkdir /mnt/fd0 <return>
>
> should work just as well.
>
> Bill
>
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