No floppy device in FC5

Tue Jun 13 00:30:46 UTC 2006

Nigel,

Well your'e not the only one who is seriously T'd off with FC5. After 3 
installs and one update to FC5, I finally had it, and dropped back to FC4. 
But I think part of the problems I have been having are related to the 
kernel. The 2.6.15 series works fine, however the 2.6.16 series both for FC4 
and FC5, has caused me nothing but grief. Most of my problems seem to deal 
with software problems. Example Star Office 6.0 which both loads and 
installs under FC4 2.6.15, does not load, or is able to even be installed 
under the 2.6.16 kernel. Why? I have know idea, but I suspect that something 
was changed in the 2.6.16 kernel that has created a series of 
incompatabilities both with software and maybe some types of hard ware. I 
too had some problems with FC5 reading a Floppy Drive, but it reads just 
fine under FC4.

Bob

Antonio
	 	As you no doubt realise, I'm seriously T'd off with
FC5, and thats leaving aside the Ragr 128's r128 driver problem.

Nigel.

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>Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
>>
>>Use Kwikdisk in KDE.  It should let you mount a floppy
>>disk by default.  The fstab line with /dev/fd0
>>/media/floppy should be present though for this to
>>work.
>>
>>/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto   
>>pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>>
>>Hope that kwikdisk/kdiskfree is installed on your
>>computer and this little problem goes away for you.
>>
>>Worst case is open up a terminal $ su -
>>password:  ***
>># mkdir -p /media/floppy   # mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>>and your floppy should be mounted & ready.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Antonio
>>>As you no doubt realise, I'm seriously T'd off with
>>>FC5, and thats leaving aside the Ragr 128's r128 driver problem.
>>>
>>>Nigel.
>>>
>
>There is NO /dev/fd0 device, it's notr there...
>
>Doug P
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