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.


I made the first solution

"/dev/fd0            /mnt/floppy         auto    defaults,users  0 0"

in the fstab, and gfloppy works perfectly, both formatting it as "DOS 
(FAT)" and as "Linux native (ext2)" successfully.


I had gfloppy added to the menu in System Tools.


However during boot I am getting an error at automount.

Is your second version better than the first? Also if I place the 
statement in mtab instead of fstab, will the automount error during boot 
disappear?


Thanks a lot.