<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mikkel L. Ellertson</b> <<a href="mailto:mikkel@infinity-ltd.com">mikkel@infinity-ltd.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Aldo Foot wrote:<br>><br>> Gents,<br>> is the /etc/floppy file needed for /dev/fd0 to work?<br>> The file /etc/floppy does not exist in a newly installed system, so I read<br>> somewhere that in order to use the floppy you have to create the file
<br>> with the command<br>> # floppy --createrc >/etc/floppy<br>><br>> But even after executing the command in FC7 I could not format the floppy<br>> using /dev/fd0, I had to use<br>> # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440.
<br>><br>> Please note that the file /dev/fd0 did exist. Any comments appreciated.<br>> ~Aldo.<br>><br>You should really have started a new message for this...<br><br>You can use setfdprm to set the format, and then format /dev/fd0, or
<br>you can use the floppy command instead of the fdformat command. The<br>device entries for the different floppy formats are not created by udev.<br><br>Mikkel<br>--<br><br> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,<br>
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https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>You're right. I should have started another thread. Sorry.<br>I'll use the tips you gave me. Thanks so far.<br><br>Thanks guys.
<br>~Aldo.<br>