writing to floppies possible as a user?

[john levin]

abetterturkey wrote:
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> I've installed Ubuntu Breezy for some family members who are using
> it and loving it, having no problems with it in their move from
> Windows. No problems that is, until a few days ago when I was
> summoned to help them with an error they demonstrated for me when
> trying to mount a floppy and write to it in KDE 3.5.0, it just
> didn't work. (I installed kubuntu-desktop for them following an
> install of ubuntu and they prefer to use KDE)

How come you're using KDE 3.50? 3.4.3 is in the repositories for Breezy, 
and 3.5.1 (with a few holdouts) there for Dapper.

john