[OT] Market Share

[Bob Warren]

Mark Wieder wrote:

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?

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That works fine on Ubuntu, but for other distros the fstab is either in 
a different place or it doesn't even seem to exist!


Bob