Trouble using USB Floppy Drive

[zombi]

Hello all!

First just a small introduction since this is my first post... My names Geoff, i live in central fl, and go to full sail for game design. Ive always been pretty interested in linux and finally gave it a go.

Ive got slackware 9.1 installed using the default kernel. During the install i was unable to make a boot disk using my usb floppy drive ( which appears to be correctly mounted at /dev/sda ). After installation from the shell i tried to use the makebootdisk script located in /sbin. The script ( from what i can tell ) only looks for floppy drives that have been mounted to /dev/fd0. I took a look at the script to see if i could change it to look for /dev/sda intstead of /dev/fd0, but that seemed like a bad idea since it is used all over the place, and i dont fully understand the script at this point anyway!

So basically im just wondering if it is possible to make the makebootdisk script work with a usb floppy drive located at /dev/sda or if there is a way to map/mount /dev/sda to /dev/fd0?

Thanks!

[Bloggins]

you could try a symbolic link from /dev/sda to /dev/fd0



first remove /dev/fd0 rm /dev/fd0

then make the link ln -s /dev/sda /dev/fd0

[Bloggins]

Problem is that your distro might not boot from usb drive.. I dont know