On Sunday 27 August 2006 11:17 am, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 27 August 2006 11:36, Keith Powell wrote: > > > > I need to be able to occasionally use floppy disks and I > > can't get them to mount. > > Hi Keith. You need to create an fstab entry for it, and a floppy > directory in /mnt. As root. > mkdir /mnt/floppy > > Then, as root in a text editor, add the line below to /etc/fstab, > which I copied from my FC2 install, and works ok on FC5. > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner > 0 0 > > Probably best to reboot, and the new fstab entry will be read. > Hello Nigel. Thank you for the information. I hope to be able to try it later today, as I do need my floppies! I am surprised that the installed floppy desktop icon doesn't work without editing the fstab file. Cheers Keith
