Floppy disks

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As distributed, Freespire 2 (and Linspire 6) cannot access floppy disks. The following steps will create an icon on the desktop that can be used to access (read, write, and format) them.

1) Create folder in /media named "floppy"

2) Add the following line to the file /etc/fstab:

  • /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw 0 0

3) Restart OS (full restart, not quick restart)

4) On desktop (in an unused area):

  • Right-Click and select "Create New > Link to device > Floppy Device"
  • Right-Click "Floppy Device" icon created and select "Properties";
    • Click on the "Device" tab;
    • Click on down-arrow at end of the "Device:" line and select "/dev/fd0 ..." from drop-down list
    • Click "OK"

An icon for the floppy device will now be on your desktop.

  • Clicking on it (with a readable disk in drive) will go to the directory of the disk.
  • Right-clicking on it (whether there is a disk in the drive or not) will bring up a menu that includes either "Mount" or "Unmount" and "Format". (There must be a disk in the drive, of course, for Mount or Format to work!)
    • Mount in this menu mounts the disk for access by other programs without bringing up the directory.
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