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April 10, 2026 at 6:35 pm #201476
Pongo
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    christophe wrote:

    Doing a quick web search, I found this from Arch Linux:

    To configure a floppy drive in the fstab file for Linux, you can use the following entry:
    /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
    This allows users to mount the floppy drive without root permissions

    I have something like that in my fstab, but it doesn’t work. The only way I can seem to get things working is by mounting with sudo. Then fd0 appears in ZZZFM, and I can even see what’s in the floppy, but I can’t save anything to the floppy without resorting to doing it in terminal with sudo. The more I dig into this, I realized that even in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, floppy drive access was not very good. The first disk went ok, but if you switched floppies, problems. So it is what it is….

    antiX 26 Stephen Kapos 5.10.240-antiX.1-486-smp on a Pentium IV @ 2 Ghz and 2 GB of RAM. 2002 Gateway desktop. 140 GB hdd has "/" and 100 GB partition on 2nd drive has "/Home" using IceWM de. Dual booting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on another partition.