[haiku-development] Re: FAT partitions / floppy disks supported?

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:55:54 +0200 CEST

"Euan Kirkhope" <euan.kirkhope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone have either fat partitions or floppy disks working in
> haiku?  I need to transfer files after compiling from my laptop to a
> crappy old pc, then swap the harddrives so my other PC can run haiku,
> and the crappy one can log kernel output!  I can't use emulation as
> I'm messing with real hardware.  Haiku doesn't seem to see the other
> partitons (one Ext3, the other fat32).  The floppy drive seems to be
> missing in Haiku

Maybe the floppy driver isn't copied to the image?
OTOH at least Qemu can (at least when run in BeOS, dunno about others)
mess with your real hardware, too, if you so choose.
As François mentioned, you currently have to manually FAT volumes using
the "mount" command.

Bye,
   Axel.


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