fc6 and floppy drive

[John]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2007 20:02, John wrote:
>   
>> I need to transfer some files via floppy; it now seems that the drive
>> can't be accessed- though it shows up in hwbrowser. I just upgraded the
>> kernel (don't have the version handy), though I'm using KDE/fc6. Any
>> suggestions?
>>
>>              John
>>     
>
> Since FC5 the way that removable media is handled has been changed, and the 
> floppy drive has lost out.
>
> This is what I did on FC5, and presume will work ok on FC6.
>
> As root on the CLI.
> mkdir /media/floppy
>
> Then with the aid of a text editor, add a line to /etc/fstab.
>
> I used the line from my FC2 install, and it works ok. See below.
>
> /dev/fd0       /media/floppy        auto       noauto,owner       0 0
>
> Hope this works for you. It did for me on FC5.
>
> Nigel.
>
>   
  Yeah, I remember doing something similar with FC5 too; I'll have to 
try this with 6. Thanks.