Date: 06 Sep 2003 09:54:00 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1 Message-ID: <44llt2c9af.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3F599952.5000403@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> References: <3F58FDF6.3030707@pacbell.net> <3F599952.5000403@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
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Hendrik Hasenbein <hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> writes: > James Leone wrote: > > 2. While I am in KDE in FreeBSD, but not in KDE in Linux, if I click > > on the Floppy Device icon before the floppy is inserted, I will not > > be able to access a subsequently inserted floppy disk. When I do, I > > get an error that says: "the device is not configured." > > Why do you even want to access a floppy before you insert it into the > drive? No system should be able to do that. Kde tries to mount the > floppy on clicking on the item. That is going to fail, because without > a floppy in the drive there is no device in the device > filesystem. Can't think why that should work with linux. Of course, but if you *then* insert a floppy and try to mount it, that should work. He's saying it doesn't. It does for me, using the command line on -STABLE, so this is either a KDE problem or a 5.x problem.
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