mount usb floppy

[lrhogusa]

I do a search for mount usb floppy and get everything else but.

Anyway here's how I got a usb floppy to mount with RH8.0

1. edit /etc/fstab to have the following line if you have no scsi
devices and no regular floppy

/dev/sda /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

2. then do command 'mkdir /mnt/floppy'

If you have a regular floppy and a usb floppy then label usb floppy as '/mnt/floppy1' in /etc/fstab

If you have other scsi devices, then /dev/sda should be changed to the next available letter ie /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc in /etc/fstab

Once that is done, do command with a floppy inserted 'mount /mnt/floppy' or 'mount /mnt/floppy1' like I had to do with a regular and usb floppy attached

When done using your usb floppy and not sitting at /mnt/floppy directory, do 'umount /mnt/floppy'. Then you can take your disk out

If you're running kudzu as a bootup service, it might take your edited line out of /etc/fstab after a reboot. If it does, you can turn kudzu off, add your line back into /etc/fstab and back on whenever you put another new device into your computer and you want RedHat to see and configure that new device.

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[lrhogusa]

I was wrong in my last paragraph about kudzu and /etc/fstab. Turning off kudzu at boot does not stop the /etc/fstab usb floopy line being removed after a bootup.