floppy won't mount: Problem & workaround

[Josiah Johnston]

The terminal part isn't necessary, apparently. It looks nicer without 
it.
And for non-developer types, just copy this to the desktop to use it.

-Josiah

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On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:04 AM, Josiah Johnston wrote:

> I got the LTSP problem sorted out. It was having trouble with the DNS 
> server I fed it. I edited /etc/resolv.conf after installation, and 
> fixed that up.
>
> When I try to mount a floppy, I get this error on three computers I 
> installed Edubuntu workstations on:
> 	I click Places -> Computers -> Floppy Drive, and get "Unable to mount 
> the selected volume. ... Error: given UDI is not a mountable volume"
> I found this bug:
> 	http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17562
> and used its advise to make the attached launcher that calls pmount 
> /media/floppy0 in a terminal. This will do as a workaround for our lab 
> for now.
>
> Maybe someone else will also get use out it.
>
> -Josiah
>
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