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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I needed to install an internal floppy on FC14, 15, Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.04 PCs. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On the Fedora PCs I found that the device drivers have to be manually installed (modprobe floppy). This allows manual mounting of the floppy by root. I put this command in rc.local and it now loads on boot.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However I cannot get it to auto-mount or have it mountable by user. I changed fstab but that made it impossible to mount even by root.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto (also tried msdos) rw,noauto,user 0 0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also tried just rw,user<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The system would accept a mount command, tell me that it was mounted, but it wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So some questions. How do I get back to the way floppy drives mounted a few years ago? Put the disk in and the system would mount it. Seems as if the OS has regressed about 10 years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Why do mount points in /media (/media/floppy) get removed when I reboot?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is fstab processed before rc.local?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I haven’t worked on the Ubuntu PC’s yet but have seen that their fstab includes a floppy but they do not work. The device driver appears to be loaded but the floppy will not mount.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#50555A'>Lawrence A. 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