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First let me say that this isn't a big deal but the perfectionist nut in me can't explain why I can't format a floppy disc in Fedora 8.
I am new boy to Linux so please bear with me if I am missing something obvious. Please don't feel that you have to shield me from feeling foolish!
My setup is based on a Gigabyte GA-G1975X-C motherboard running a 3.5Ghz Dual core. 2GB ram.
From way back I have kept my 1.4mb 3.5" floppy drive and just once in a while using it is the easiest way to move a small file from one place to another. Reading and writing to the disc isn't a problem. Formatting is!
Having RTFM'd the info on "floppy" my command line appears to be simply "floppy -f". If I do that, I get
I had a line fairly similar in fstab for the floppy but Fedora's boot routine did't seem to like it unless there was media loaded and I rarely had a disc in the drive. I assume the issue is that Fedora 8 auto mounts all file systems?
Of course had I had "noauto" on the line, that problem goes away. Obvious when someone helpful points it out!
John
Last edited by John-in-France; 02-18-2008 at 03:24 PM.
Reason: Missed something!
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