fc6 and floppy drive

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 05 May 2007 20:02, John wrote:
> I need to transfer some files via floppy; it now seems that the drive
> can't be accessed- though it shows up in hwbrowser. I just upgraded the
> kernel (don't have the version handy), though I'm using KDE/fc6. Any
> suggestions?
>
>              John

Since FC5 the way that removable media is handled has been changed, and the 
floppy drive has lost out.

This is what I did on FC5, and presume will work ok on FC6.

As root on the CLI.
mkdir /media/floppy

Then with the aid of a text editor, add a line to /etc/fstab.

I used the line from my FC2 install, and it works ok. See below.

/dev/fd0       /media/floppy        auto       noauto,owner       0 0

Hope this works for you. It did for me on FC5.

Nigel.