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.