How To Install floppy-support on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install floppy-support on Fedora 36.
What is floppy-support
By default the floppy driver is not loaded at boot time. Installing this package will load the floppy driver as part of the install and will set things so that it will be loaded during future boots. While the floppy driver is currently in kernel-modules, it may move to kernel-modules-extra in the future, and if so this package will bring that in.
We can use yum or dnf to install floppy-support on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install floppy-support.
Install floppy-support on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install floppy-support using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install floppy-support
Install floppy-support on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install floppy-support using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install floppy-support
How To Uninstall floppy-support on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the floppy-support package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove floppy-support
floppy-support Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/modules-load.d/floppy.conf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install floppy-support on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
