v7.04

[Ari Torhamo]

On su, 2007-09-23 at 11:18 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/23/2007 09:23 AM, Ari Torhamo wrote:

> > 
> > The tool for formatting floppies in Gnome is called Gfloppy. You can
> > start it from the command line simply by giving the command "gfloppy".
> > You should be able to start it by going to Places -> Computer, right
> > clicking the floppy drive icon and selecting "Format". If this menu item
> > isn't available, as it seems to be in your case, then something has gone
> > wrong with your installation (assuming that you have a floppy drive
> > connected into your PC :-) 
> > 
> > You may have a look if you have the package gnome-utils installed.
> > Gfloppy is a part of it. If the package is installed, you might try to
> > re-install it and see if the "Format" menu item appears then.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Ari Torhamo
> > 
> > 
> 
> Does that work for you on Feisty 7.04? I'd be _very_ surprised if it does.
> 
> Doesn't on mine & while gfloppy is supposed to be in gnome-utils
> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/gnome/gnome-utils), it was apparently
> left out:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/107843
> [I've been using kfloppy]
> 
> Also see:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=456210


You are right - I'm sorry for giving wrong information. I assumed that
formating floppies in Feisty works the way I described, because to my
remembering that's how I used to do it in some pre-Feisty versions of
Ubuntu, and because that's how it's done now in Gutsy. Now when you
raised this issue, I'm getting a little uncertain about how it was done
before Feisty too :-/

Ari