Comments on: Tip:How to mount,unmount and format floppy disk in Ubuntu

By: Whaaaat?

Whaaaat? — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:41:44 +0000

Above poster User2011 is a complete moron, this works perfectly in Lucid. I can access my floppy drive with no problems. Did you create a mount point prior to issuing the mount command? Do you have a floppy disk drive with a disk in it?

uh.. Kubuntu is a version of Ubuntu and you too are a moron. For those of us that can use and understand the CLI in a terminal, a graphical GUI is not needed. Besides, when your spoon fed, you don’t learn the mechanics of the OS.

hmmm last few BIOS’s that I flashed, I never entered the OS, so mounting a floppy drive in Ubuntu to flash the BIOS is totally unnecessary.

By: user2011

user2011 — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:19:31 +0000

As of 2011 floppy disks are no longer supported and the above listed suggestion of creating a directory and mounting /dev/fd0 will not work in Ubuntu Lucid.

Unfortunately there are also no helpful or useful links that can be found when doing a Google search to solve this problem.

This is a big problem because ASUS motherboards require a floppy disk to flash the BIOS. ASUS claims you can use a USB disk but that currently doesn’t work either.

If you by some miracle do find a solution please post it in the Ubuntu Forums, or the Ubuntu Geek forums so that the solution can be found.

Thanks.

By: Wiley

Wiley — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:50:19 +0000

sorry, forget my comment above, must’ve been christmas dinner acting up. Ofcourse there has to be a floppy in the drive to mount…

By: Wiley

Wiley — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:56:40 +0000

Doesn’t work: it tells me /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

By: SkipF

SkipF — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:04:13 +0000

I removed my FDD when AOL stopped sending me floppy
disks in the mail, every week.

By: nbensa

nbensa — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:15:25 +0000

sudo mount!!??

what’s this?

is ubuntu really that far behind? in kubuntu you just open dolphin and click on the floppy icon. No need to be root or use sudo.

By: David

David — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:02:02 +0000

I wouldn’t rely on a floppy to do a bios flash as they make them so cheap these days, not the quality that they use to be. Old tech anyway

By: joeYao

joeYao — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:48:29 +0000

I don’t have a floppy drive. Today, I don’t know what I can do with this. Maybe for bios flash.

By: KruyKaze

KruyKaze — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:49:41 +0000

What’s a floppy disk?