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Jake Cheesdog
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 Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 1:40 pm Post subject: floppy not working |
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hi,
when i first installed gentoo my floppy drive wasnt plugged in (oops.)
What do I have to do to get gentoo to recognise my floppy drive, and specifacally to use msdos disks in it?
cheers
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kopfarzt
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Location: Vienna, Austria
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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This should not matter, as long as you are talking about a standard floppy drive.
You should be able to access DOS floppies by mounting them with type fat or vfat, e.g: | Code: | | mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy |
If you want to use a DOS floppy without mounting it, emerge mtools.
kopfarzt
PS: If you are talking about a USB Floppy Drive, then you should first make yourself familiar with USB under Linux. |
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smiler.se
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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If you are rolling your own kernel, make sure that you have floppy-support in it 
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