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Floppy in use on boot, can't access it.

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When I boot up Mandrake 8.1, I see "Floppy /dev/fd0 in use" and when I get to the desktop, I can't acces my floppy drive. When I try, I get "No such device" or some other message. I dual-boot with Win98. In Win98 my floppy works fine. What's up? (It's driving me nuts!)

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Actually, this is the error: /dev/fd0 unknown device Sam

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Name: Tom
Date: June 28, 2002 at 18:41:22 Pacific

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Does the file /dev/fd0 actually exist?

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Yes, in /mnt, "floppy" is there along with cdrom, cdrom1, disk and windows. Sam

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and in /etc/fstab ?

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