Floppy drive issues with the finale Breezy

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T_Stormcrowe Wrote: 
> OK, pmount dev/fd0 doesn't work, neither does variation using floppy
> instd fd. I tried pmount  AND mount  /media/fd   and /fd0   and /floppy
> and /floppy0. Nothing will mount my floppy, and I've tried it with
> different floppies inserted. This is an older Legacy floppy by the way
> in an old deskpro Compaq. 450mhz PII 64 meg RAM system. I got the cdrom
> working and everything else seems to work now. I just can't get the #@%#
> &%@# *&%$ floppy drive to work! :mad:  What ya think, drive checks out
> ok, it works! Think I should go to Flash media or a zip? As a temporary
> solution, I've set up a virtual storage on the internet using a sealed
> yahoo group. I'd like to be able to store onsite though, less risk that
> way! The error mssg I get is can't mount media...........More info: file
> type not specified . I've tried in terminal. What am I missing here,
> help a newb, please!



Have you tried changing /dev/fd0 type in /etc/fstab from auto to vfat?

Auto caused me a great deal of pain as well!


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paddyg