Red Hat Topics - How to disable floppy module on Fedora core 4?

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How to disable floppy module on Fedora core 4?

attila.kovari

2006-01-18, 5:48 pm

Hello,

Is there any way of disabling the floppy module on fedora core 4? I
don't have a floppy drive and i would like to disable this module.
I added the followinf lines to the modprobe.conf file but with no
results:
alias /dev/floppy off
alias /dev/fd* off

Any sugestions?

Thanks

Attila

Mr.C

2006-02-01, 2:47 am

attila.kovari wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there any way of disabling the floppy module on fedora core 4? I
> don't have a floppy drive and i would like to disable this module.
> I added the followinf lines to the modprobe.conf file but with no
> results:
> alias /dev/floppy off
> alias /dev/fd* off

alias floppy off

Mark