wine users - Mar 2005 - Access to floppy disk drive from wine-installed programs

Can anybody please tell me how to access the floppy disk drive from
wine-installed programs? I've installed some basic accounting software
which backs-up to floppy (don't laugh!), but when I try to do this I get
the message "no removable drives..." even though I've mounted the
floppy
drive. The CDROM (fake d:) drive is listed in dosdevices, but floppy
(fake a: ?) doesn't seem to be. Any suggestions please,

Andy

Andy Allen wrote:
> Can anybody please tell me how to access the floppy disk drive from
> wine-installed programs? I've installed some basic accounting software
> which backs-up to floppy (don't laugh!), but when I try to do this I
get
> the message "no removable drives..." even though I've mounted
the floppy
> drive. The CDROM (fake d:) drive is listed in dosdevices, but floppy
> (fake a: ?) doesn't seem to be. Any suggestions please,
The dosdevices directory contains sym(bolic)-links to the actual 
devices. To add the floppy drive you just need to create a new link to 
the device i.e. /mnt/floppy (or whatever your distro uses). To do this 
check out the man pages for 'ln'.

Hope that helps

--- Andy Allen <andy.allen@virgin.net> wrote:
> Can anybody please tell me how to access the floppy
> disk drive from
> wine-installed programs? I've installed some basic
> accounting software
> which backs-up to floppy (don't laugh!), but when I
> try to do this I get
> the message "no removable drives..." even though
> I've mounted the floppy
> drive. The CDROM (fake d:) drive is listed in
> dosdevices, but floppy
> (fake a: ?) doesn't seem to be. Any suggestions
> please,
> 
> Andy
Hi Andy,

If a: is not listed, why not just create the sym link?
:)

Hiji


	
		
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