Ioannis,

Will research SL vs Centos.

-Connie Sieh

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> 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.
>