kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Don't top-post, please.

Martin Tournoy <carpetsmoker at gmail.com> writes:

> My advice:
> Save all your work before you do anything with a floppy
> Don't do anything with a floppy on critical machines
> Think before you act when working with a floppy

Using the mtools port is a lot easier.  It uses the Windows model of
separate devices instead of mounting the floppy into a unified
filesystem tree, so it avoids the kernel interaction with the mount
point.