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Old 01-03-2003
Accessing floppy drive with solaris 8 Intel version
Ok heres the situation,
I bought solaris 8 (intel version) for my home pc to practice with, I'm having problems accessing my floppy drive, I thought it would be in my dev or devices folder but its not there

Please help, I'm very new to unix
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Old 01-04-2003
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I'm having problems accessing my floppy drive
I've not used Solaris so this is a shot in the dark but I'm guessing you have to make a mount point for it. Similar to what you do in FreeBSD:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Hope this helps. Smilie
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Old 01-04-2003
also you mightj ust be able to do 'mount /dev/fd0' as the floppy mount point might be in your fstab, which also specifies the type as auto so you dont haev to know what filesystem your floppy is. but then again it might not be.
 
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