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On 07/09/2010 06:57 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The configurator shows:
A: /mnt/floppy
C: ../drive_c
D: /mnt/cdrom
E: /home/doug
Z: /
I cannot access A: or D:, even when there is software in those
actual drives (i.e., floppy and CD). Trying to access them
from the command prompt says "path not found."
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<pre wrap="">Questions:
1) Are the floppy and CD automounted if you put a disk in the drive?
2) Is the floppy automounted as /mnt/floppy and the CD as /mnt/cdrom?
If either floppy or CD doesn't automount (and I'd be surprised if the
floppy automounts) you'll have to mount the disk before you can read it
and remember to unmount it after use before you remove it from the
drive. In this case, use the mount point that Wine is expecting.
If either CD or floppy automounts to a different place, change the wine
configuration to match the actual mount point. Recent Fedora distros
automount CDs and USB mass storage devices as /media/LABEL where "LABEL"
is the disk's volume name so its likely that pclinuxos does the same, in
which case it may be easier to manually mount the disk so you can
specify the name of the mount point to match the wine configuration.
Martin
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Thank you for enlightening me. the problem is, I don't know <br>
how to proceed from here. It would appear that the floppy<br>
automounts, since I have (in pclos) a folder which has the<br>
name of the floppy (ACAD), but not any of the files. The disk<br>
is some kind of FAT fs--it's an old AutoCad LT from 1993--<br>
and I don't know if pclos can read FAT. <br>
Also, I have looked at the fstab, and I don't see any entry for <br>
either the floppy or the cd-rom, but the system seems to<br>
find them. The fstab is in an unfamiliar format: the first<br>
entry reads as follows:<br>
<br>
<font face="monospace"># Entry for /dev/sda1 :<br>
UUID=fa0f413c-58ba-447a-913d-833d0ee93c94 / ext4 defaults 1 1<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I get the
general idea (I don't know how to get back to the original font, here)
but<br>
this does not look like anything I ever saw in an fstab before. There
do not seem to<br>
be enough entries, and at any rate, there are only entries for sda1,
sda6, sda5, where sda6<br>
is /home and sda5 is /swap, and then entries:<br>
<br>
<font face="monospace">none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0<br>
tempfsss /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0<br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I don't know what these
devices are, and I don't know how to find out. To<br>
get back to the original question, how can I make Wine read the floppy
and the<br>
CD drive, since I don't know what pclos calls them, or where.<br>
<br>
I confess to not being very adept at the Linux command line stuff,
having<br>
been spoiled by too much graphic desktop in both Windows and Linux. <br>
I am trying to do my homework, but I find myself at an impass.<br>
<br>
--doug</font></font></font></font></font><br>
<br>
Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both
sides. --A. M. Greeley
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