Bob- Wednesday, July 5, 2006, 10:47:12 AM, you wrote: > 2) Giving us some means of discovering whether a floppy diskette drive > exists in the hardware (since it cannot be done by the normal 'Windows' > method). How about looking at the /etc/fstab file and checking for the presence of a /dev/fd0 entry? -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net