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Floppy-drives supported?

Postby omelette » Aug 29th, '11, 16:16

Quick question, does Mageia support floppies by default? I have just installed it on an old pc and the floppy is not showing up. It does with Mint.
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Re: Floppy-drives supported?

Postby djennings » Aug 29th, '11, 21:28

If it is not loading the floppy module you can force it to by putting the word floppy in the file /etc/modprobe.preload
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Re: Floppy-drives supported?

Postby omelette » Aug 30th, '11, 10:42

Ok, I'll try that. Thanks.
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