How to Mount a Floppy Drive in Linux
- 1). Open a command-line terminal from the taskbar. Log in with root privileges using the following command:
#su root - 2). Insert a disk into the floppy drive. Create a Linux filesystem on the disk with the following command:
#mkfs -t ext3 /dev/fd0 1440 - 3). Create a folder specifically for mounted floppy disks with the following command:
#mkdir /mnt/floppy - 4). Mount the disk in the floppy drive with the following command:
#mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
