Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Bart Silverstrim]

NoOp wrote:
> On 07/31/2008 03:14 PM, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 16:59 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
>>> Well, I did just as you suggested: I now have "floppy formatter" in my
>>> system tools menu. When I unmount the fdd, I click Applications --
>>> System Tools -- Floppy Formatter and I get a dialog window.
>>>
>>> I select the floppy type, the format I want, type in a name for the
>>> disk, click format and, after about thirty seconds, I get an adamant
>>> system lock. Force reboot with the reset button, try the same thing
>>> using a different floppy disk, and get the same result. So much for
>>> floppy formatter, I guess.
>> That sucks, but without more info there is nothing I can do. As I said,
>> I cannot replicate this myself because I lack a floppy drive. I found
>> six bugs filed for the floppy formatter ("gfloppy"), maybe something
>> there is of help: 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.searchtext=gfloppy&search=Search+Bug+Reports&field.scope=all&field.scope.target=
> 
> I do use floppies, and I've just tested formating  (DOS (FAT)) a floppy
> on 5 systems; 4 Hardy (1 a shiny new install) and 1 Gutsy. On the Gutsy
> machine I used gfloppy, for the rest I used kfloppy. All using Gnome.
> 
> There is a reason why gfloppy is hidden in the applications menu; I
> think it has some Gtk/gnome-utils kinks that are still being worked out
> in Hardy & hopefully will be resolved soon.  Mr. Montague can install
> kfloppy via a GUI by the following:
> 
> 1. Click on Applications - upper left corner on the top panel.
> 2. Click on Add/Remove (bottom of Applications menu).
> 3. In the "Show" tab click the little black down arrow and select "All
> Available Applications"
> 4. In the Search box (upper right of Add/Remove Applications) enter:
> kfloppy.
> 5. Click the little empty box next to KFloppy. At the popup that says
> "Enable the installation of community maintained software?" click the
> "Enable button.
> 6. The little box next to KFloppy should now be blue. Click the "Apply
> Changes" button in the lower right hand corner of Add/Remove Applications.
> 7. Enter your password in the popup and hit the Enter key.
> 
> That will download and install kfloppy kde4 and the 45 files necessary
> to support it.
> 
> Now just in case those GUI instructions are too difficult, here is how
> to do it from Synaptics:
> 
> 1. Click on System|Administration|Synaptic Package Manager
> 2. Enter your password
> 3. In Synaptics click on the "Search" button (the one with binoculars)
> and enter kfloppy
> 4. Click the little box next to kfloppy-kde4 and select "Mark for
> Installation"
> 5. Click the "Apply" button (the one with the green check mark).
> 
> TThat will download and install kfloppy kde4 and the 45 files necessary
> to support it.
> 
> To run kfloppy:
> 
> 1. Click on Applications|Accessories|KFloppy
> 2. Format your floppy.
> 
> Or the GUI installation is unclear:
> 
> 1. Click on Applications|Accessories|Terminal
> 2. In the terminal enter:
> sudo apt-get install kfloppy-kde
> 3. Enter your password.
> 4. Run as above.
> 
> Note: personally I prefer the basic kfloppy available in the Universe
> repository, but I'll spare others on the list from having to write basic
> instructions for Mr. Montague on how to enable the Universe repository
> and then do 'sudo apt-get install kfloppy' from the terminal or how to
> install from Synaptic.
> 
> If I get around to it I'll file a bug report relating to Nautilus not
> changing the floppy name without a reboot.

Sounds like you already summed up the fix then...I made an offer (which 
he'll no doubt ignore or rebuff?) to try investigating it with a clean 
slate if he was willing to do so and send a quick summary of how to 
reproduce the problem.

If he doesn't do it, I'll say thanks for the bug report and summary of 
the issue in the archives now.

-Bart