Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Floppy-drive on usb

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bjørn Rasmussen wrote:
> lør, 13.03.2004 kl. 23.22 skrev Heiko Zuerker:
> 
>>Bjørn Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>>tor, 11.03.2004 kl. 03.26 skrev Heiko Zuerker:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Bjørn Rasmussen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>>I've a notebook which I liked to use for DL (ver. 1.0.4) testing. 
>>>>>Notebooks nowadays are not equipped with internal floppy-drives, so I
>>>>>bought a usb-drive.  Despite DL has support for mass-storage on the
>>>>>usb-port, it seems to me that this is not the case for the usb
>>>>>floppy-drive.
>>>>>
>>>>>The initrc script (boot-up script for DL) searches a list of devices on
>>>>>the usb-port, among them sda1 for the etc.tar.bz2 file.  Since the
>>>>>floppy is represented as sda (at least at my system), the script denies
>>>>>mounting the drive.  Is it an idea to include sda in the list?

The next development release (1.1.x)  will have support for usb-floppies.

Heiko