Using a floppy

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 9:58 am, Neil Winchurst wrote:

> I have tried both and it makes no difference. I can mount a floppy. I
> can read a file that is already present but I cannot write a new on to
> the diskettle. This is very strange.

FWIW, here's the fstab line from my ancient Mandrake 8.1 fstab:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto 
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0

That was the last distro on which I used a floppy for anything, and it worked.

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