No floppy device in FC5

Douglas Phillipson phillipd at oem.doe.gov
Mon Jun 12 20:48:58 UTC 2006



Antonio Olivares wrote:

> 
> Use Kwikdisk in KDE.  It should let you mount a floppy
> disk by default.  The fstab line with /dev/fd0
> /media/floppy should be present though for this to
> work.  
> 
> /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto  
>  pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> 
> Hope that kwikdisk/kdiskfree is installed on your
> computer and this little problem goes away for you.
> 
> Worst case is open up a terminal 
> $ su -
> password:  ***
> # mkdir -p /media/floppy   
> # mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> and your floppy should be mounted & ready.  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio
>> As you no doubt realise, I'm seriously T'd off with
>> FC5, and thats leaving 
>> aside the Ragr 128's r128 driver problem.
>>
>> Nigel.
>>

There is NO /dev/fd0 device, it's notr there...

Doug P




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