writing to floppies possible as a user?

[Sven Wagschal]

abetterturkey schrieb:
> 
> I was sure that this was really something simple and put the floppy
> in and it said it couldn't determine the filesystem. I had never
> seen this issue with Linux before, and I've used several
> distributions. Naturally when I went to the command line I could
> mount the floppy using sudo with the vfat option and I quickly
> wrote the files they wanted to the floppy.
> [...] 
> Is there a clear and simple solution? I am begging you, please help
> me solve this so I can shake the "it works in Windows!" parrots
> from my back! :P

This problem exists since the release of Breezy, yet the developers seem 
not to be able to publish a fix to the community ... :-p

The problem was discussed in this threat: 
<http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=90656&highlight=Breezy+Floppy+Disk+Bug>. 
There you will find the following post:

>   Its real...just a bad URL
> 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pmount/
> 
> is the real one.
> 
> My Pmount was 0.9.5 and I have been running update/upgrade for weeks.
> 

Hope this helps.

Regards,

S. Wagschal