"More and more Linux users are dropping microsoft alltogether and using
Linux as a stand-alone OS and needing basic functions to read and write
files on media such as 'floppy'. For some time Linux has been going from
a secondary OS to a solitary OS in its usage. floppy is an important
function to h
Yes, for me it was working perfectly in Jaunty. On the systems here as
soon as I upgraded to Karmic it no longer worked from the pull down
menus "Places." We're simply working around it by /media$ mount floppy
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[Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44183
OS Karmic 9.10
Since a recent update approx. today, 03/24/2010, I have had to start using
devkit-disks --mount /dev/fd0 to mount a floppy disk rather than mount
/media/floppy in order to have a floppy icon appear on the desktop, and in
order to have content on the floppy disk appear in /med
Here, we have been doing the following, simply creating two events using
'Create Launcher.'
One with the command for mounting floppy
disks.
One with the command for formatting floppy
disks.
And then simply having two Icons on the desktop.
This has been working fine for Unbuntu 10.04 and 11.04
We've been following this bug just about since it was first reported.
We are still using 9.10 with a workaround to support our floppy drivers.
We have cameras that were about $1k each when new, still in use, but use
a floppy drive, so it's not cost effective for us to stop using floppy
drives. Hen
