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Apr 29, 2011Could not access my floppy under Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Live. There was no /dev/fd0, only a /dev/fd pointing to file descriptors including 0.
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Code:
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dd: opening `/dev/fd0': Read-only file system
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Code:
# =========== GRUB4GOS ===================================
title == Use grub4dos for the following entries: ==
[code]....