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.

Troy
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