[B2-devel] Accessibility of floppy drive through sheepshaver, running on Linux

[Andrew L. <and...@in...>]

Hi all,

Now I've got SheepShaver 2.3 up and running. Excellent!!  However, I seem 
unable to access data / programmes on floppies.

I've looked at FAQ's like at 
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/sheepshaver/help/using_sheepshaver
but using Ctrl-F1 doesn't make it fully accessible. ie. No floppy icon appears 
on the desk.  

Furthermore, within SheepShaver, if I open my Unix box, then the 'mount' 
folder, then the 'floppy' folder, this causes the floppy drive to be accessed 
(the floppy drive can be audibly heard to be accessed, and its drive light 
flickers), however no files can be viewed within in the 'floppy' folder.

The same occurs if I do the following within a shell on my Linux box  . . .

[andrew@internode ~]$ cd /mnt/floppy
[andrew@internode floppy]$ hmount /dev/fd0
Volume name is "Untitled"
Volume was created on Tue Nov  2 22:43:39 1993
Volume was last modified on Fri Apr  7 22:27:30 1995
Volume has 638464 bytes free
[andrew@internode floppy]$

Then, again in SheepShaver, I open my Unix box and open the 'mount' folder 
then open the 'floppy' folder.  Again, the floppy folder appears to contain 
no files.  This is despite the fact that the floppy drive can be heard to be 
accessed, and the floppy drive light flickers.

At no time does a floppy disk icon appear on the SheepShaver / MacOS 8.5 
desktop.

Should I be expecting to see a floppy disk icon on the desktop ?

Is there something else I should be doing to make the files from my floppy 
disks, visible within SheepShaver ?

Cheers,

Andrew