No floppy device in FC5

[Kayvan A. Sylvan]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:10:30PM +0200, nigel henry wrote:
> >
> > Floppies are not automounted when you insert a floppy
> > in an FC5 machine.  In most cases you have to become
> > root to mount it via command line.
> > # mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> 
> All I get from that is "mount can't find /dev/fd0/media/floppy in /etc/fstab 
> or /etc/mtab" . That is a true statement as removeable media is no longer 
> in /etc/fstab.

In your case, from reading the info in this thread, the floppy drive
shows up as /dev/sda, not as /dev/fd0, since it is an internal USB device
on your laptop.
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