Why Can't Ubuntu Mount a floppy Disk

[Colin McDermott]

In the latest issue of Tux magazine we have one person write in asking 
"Why can't I mount a floppy disk in Ubuntu Breezy?"

After the Editors numerous attempts to mount a floppy disk via the Gnome 
and KDE gui's she has to resort to the command prompt.

In Hoary the problem could be fixed by altering /etc/fstab and replacing 
the Auto file type with msdos file type.

In Breezy the problem seems to be worse as the entire system seems broken.

Could this be fixed in Drake? Yes we still use floppy disks and yes most 
other distros can use them easily. If a Student gives me a floppy disk I 
want to be able to read it. I hate seeing Ubuntu embarrassed by failing 
to support a basic function as I feel proud of our distro

Sincerely
> Colin McDermott
> Reboot Computer Reuse centre
> Ubuntu Lite
> http://groups.google.com.au/group/ubuntu_lite