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Re: Newbie problem with startx

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From: ochre small
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00
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Hey greyman, just a query...
>All removeable media in Linux has to be mount-ed and umount-ed before you
>will 'see' them. This includes floppy discs (when the have a ext2
filesystem
I am a mega newbie, and thus inclined to trust overly in books etc, but I
read somewhere that floppies maintain a FAT16 structure.  is this a
different issue to ext2/msdos?

Dave
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From: "ochre small" <reddwarf@octa4.net.au>
Subject: Re: Newbie problem with startx
Date: 1999/01/06
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