[Herefordshire] Re: Saving to floppy from live Distros

[Julian Robbins]

Hi chris

I'm on holiday at the moment so no info to hand but I know that my Ububtu didn't quite work out of the box with floppies. The forums had a simple fix that helped. But this was with the main version not the bootable one.
I know that ubuntu  works really really well with USB memory sticks if you have one of those. 
Also, to access the floppy you need to go to /media/floppy in Ubuntu.
Which version of Ubuntu do you have ? 5.10 Hoary is much improved over Warty and may be fixed with respect to floppies. I know Ubuntu are keen on the usability angle and hope would hope floppies work better with the new version.

Julian



-----Original Message-----
From:  Chris Owens
Date:  3.5.05 21:59
To:  LUG Posting
Subj:  [Herefordshire] Re: Saving to floppy from live Distros

Hi everyone

    Have been trying to overcome the intermittent failure to access my
hard-drive at boot which we discussed at the last meeting by using the
Ubuntu Live CD to run Open Office in the hope of saving session data to
floppy. All goes very well (and very good Ubuntu seems to be), I can play in
the Spreadsheet module, write macros fine and save them to the home/warty
directory but of course they are not there on a re-boot as expected so why
not save the data to floppy methinks.

    This I just cannot do despite '/floppy' appearing as an optional file
destination. An error message is returned to the effect "Error saving the
document filename.sxc: /floppy/filename.sxc does not exist" and the floppy
drive does not attempt to spin.

    Is this a limitation of Live Distros in general or of the Ubuntu one in
particular or have I missed a vital trick. Have tried assigning chmod 777
status to the file and copying from the Command Line, in fact everything I
can think of (which is not much) but to no avail.

Any help enormously welcome

Chris O



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