#1 - Floppy Drives

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This is why I personaly think Linux doesn't stand a chance in taking over windows...

Can someone point out to me what I'm doing wrong. I'm running Ubuntu Edgy and trying to mount the floppy drive #sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy and getting the following error.

mount: dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

I feel bad laughing at n00bs, but he was really asking for it. Having an isolated problem mounting floppy disks (floppy disks!) is why Linux won't take over more desktop marketshare. I'm sure there are millions of Windows users who are looking longingly at Linux, wishing it would support all sorts of ancient technology (not in a Stargate SG-1 sense) so they can finally switch over.

I personally am disgusted at Compaq for not designing my computer with an inbuilt punchcard reader. It's a basic essential!

EDIT: I found another post on Ubuntu Forums worthy of writing about. The person is asking if his computer is powerful enough to run Ubuntu, and he describes his computer as being "Pentium 2 with 192k of RAM". This guy isn't dumb though - just got confused, like the man my father worked with back when we changed to the metric system, who got confused between centimeters and kilometers.