Upgrades sometimes flawed

[George Borusiewich]

In the last two days, I've sent in one rant and one explanation. Now 
that I feel better, I will now humbly ask for help. As I've stated, I 
upgraded (full install)  from Linux Mint 5 (Ubuntu 8.04) to Linux Mint 6 
(Ubuntu 8.10). My floppy drive, which worked under Mint 5, does not work 
under Mint 6. According to an Ubuntu website, this is due to a bug in 
Ubuntu 8.10 (bug #255651). From this site and 2 others, it seems that 
the floppy drive module is not being loaded. The solution being offered 
is to "add the module floppy  to /etc/modules and then modify the fstab 
file to automount the floppy." Being a noobie this means absolutely 
nothing to me. I have no experience with working in a terminal. May I 
ask if someone can explain to me in simple language what I have to do to 
get my floppy drive working again? George Borusiewich