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April 9, 2026 at 3:45 pm #201392
christophe
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    Hi, Pongo!

    I tried this on my one computer that has a built-in floppy drive.
    In zzzfm as my normal user, the drive does not show up. However, it does show in the devices drop-down menu when I start zzzfm as root. Here I get this error messege:
    udevil: error 64: unable to determine device fstype - specify with -t

    So, then I ran these commands:
    mkdir floppy
    #creates the directory to mount the floppy in my home directory
    sudo mount /dev/fd0 floppy
    #mounts it as root — I tried as my normal user, but using the ‘mount’ command need to have root priviledges

    So now you can work with the floppy disk files, but you’ll have to be ‘root’.

    I know this isn’t exactly what you asked, but maybe it will help…

    • This reply was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by christophe.

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