Troy Dawson wrote:
Ioannis Vranos wrote:
OS: SL 5.1 x86.
Floppies do not work under SL. Neither gfloppy, or this:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Formatting_floppies_under_Linux
Also they can not be mounted.
Floppies work OK under SL::VMWare::Windows. Anyone else having this
issue?
Thanks.
Ioannis (John)
RedHat appears to not like floppies in RHEL5, and that translated down
to SL5. Or at least the don't get setup in anything I could find.
I had some users that needed theirs working and I had to edit the fstab
by hand. I first put in
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,users 0 0
And that worked for everything but the floppy that they were using. (It
was comming from a oscilloscope). so I had to change it to the following.
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults,users 0 0
Oh, I also made a directory /mnt/floppy
As far as formatting floppies, I usually format them as I would any
other disk
mkfs.<filesystem> /dev/<device>
so for a normal floppy in a normal floppy drive I do
mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0
And it seems to work.
Thanks for the info. Not making any comparison assumptions but I
installed SL 5 after I ruined my original CentOS 5.1 installation, and I
had no serious floppy issues with it. And I think "gfloppy" was in their
menu there. I am saying this, because you may miss some rpm or something.
