Accessinf devices after install...

[Kevin A Smith <kas@lucent.com>]

I'm pulling hair already.....

I have debian running on a desktop system now, all working fine
with network access - but I cannot access either my CDROM or FLOPPY
drives.

I've tried "installing" the drivers via "modconf",
but my first
problem is that my CDROM does not appear to be supported - at
least with the drivers that I have available (where do I go to get
a list of supported CDROMs)? [I have a Digital Research CDROM x36].

Next, though my floppy seems to have been "installed", I get
errors
when I try to mount it:

kevin-dsl-212:/floppy# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd1u1440 /floppy

mount: block device /dev/fd1u1440 is write-protected, mounting read-only

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd1u1440,

       or too many mounted file systems

How do you know which device to select in "/dev"? I tried
the one I thought
it should be (from the man pages and other docs), but got:

kevin-dsl-212:/floppy# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,

       or too many mounted file systems

Mind you, when I tried this again - I got the same errors, but the
floppy
did engage!

Baby steps indeed.....

As always, any help.....

Kevin Smith                             
KAS@lucent.com                          
1 (510) 747-2141