Upgrades sometimes flawed

[Eric]

Think I just fixed mine....Hasn't recurred in a couple days, anyway:
I disabled AC97(my onboard) in BIOS
Pity I didnt think of that months before I got irrtated

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Daniel Laycock <danlaycock at gmail.com>wrote:

> Long-time listener, first time contributor....
>
> I had the same problem with 8.10 myself.  After much mucking around,
> here is a detailed step-by-step of how I got it working.
>
> First you need to get the "floppy" module to load:
>
> gksudo gedit /etc/modules
>
> and add "floppy" to the end of the list of modules in this file.
>
> Now, to get the floppy to automount you need to first create the
> directory where you'd like it to mount to (/media/floppy in my case):
>
> sudo mkdir /media/floppy
> sudo chmod g+rwx floppy
> sudo chmod o-rx floppy
> sudo chgrp plugdev floppy
>
> Finally, you need to edit /etc/fstab to tell the floppy to automount:
>
> gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
>
> and add "/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto user,exec,rw,noauto,sync 0 0" to
> the bottom of the file.
>
> The floppy will not automount when you insert a disk (since floppy
> drives are incapable of sensing if they contain a disk or not) but as
> soon as you browse to /media/floppy it will mount.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Eric Cyr <1ballistic1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hunh....good to know
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Daniel Robitaille <
> robitaille at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Eric Cyr <1ballistic1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Don't think I've ever used gksudo with gedit....always worked fine for
> >> > me
> >>
> >> I only learned of the difference recently:
> >>
> >>   http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo
> >>
> >>
> >>
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