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Support for floppy drive for OS 6.2 Lite?

woodsdweller

Thu May 01, 2014 2:51:08 pm

I just installed Zorin 6.2 lite on my old Dell 4550 (pentium 4, cpu 2.0 ghz, 2 gb ram) and it doesn't appear to support my floppy drive. Is there a driver I can download? Any other suggestions? It is otherwise running very nicely, but I really want to be able to use my floppy drive. P.S. I am a newbie to Linux but see it as the savior for old PC's!

Wolfman

Fri May 02, 2014 4:40:35 am

Hi,

install the package "fdutils" and then look in your home folder and see if the drive is showing after a restart!.

Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and paste the following command:

Code:
sudo apt-get install fdutils


To check and see if the floppy module has loaded:

Code:
lsmod | grep -i floppy


Let us know if this helps!. :D