Floppy drive no longer appears

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "JDY" == Jeffrey D Yuille <jeffy5 at optonline.net> writes:

JDY> I recently installed the Gnome version of Fedora Core 3
JDY> onto an older computer.

I have no idea what the "Gnome version" of FC3 is, but the plain FC3
from Red Hat does lose the floppy drive when later kernel updates are
applied.  See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163865

One possible solution:

Go to http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rpms/hal and download all of the
files there which end in "i386.rpm" to an empty directory.  Change to
that directory and, as root, run "rpm -Fvh *".

If you want access to USB stick devices to go fast with new FC3
kernels as well, go to http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rpms/hal-nosync
and get the packages from there instead.

Of course these are unofficial packages, but they're in use on a
couple hundred FC3 desktops here.  There's no official solution that I
know of.

 - J<