[Gutsy] Automount Floppies

[Ashley Benton]

Yes I had the same problem with Ubuntu 6.10, the floppy didn't show up and
'place >  computer > Floppy drive' didn't do anything if I clicked on it. I
learned how to mount and unmout with the command line. Didn't try with gusty
7.10 yet.
Meg

On Jan 19, 2008 8:05 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> As would be the case, I don't usually use floppys much anymore but the
> last time that I did I was able to put a floppy in the drive and Gutsy
> 7.10 would automount the disk. Doing some work today that required a
> floppy I noticed that the only way that I could get the disk to mount
> was via:
>
> sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy (or /media/floppy0)
>
> umount also works the same, as does using the gnome floppy formater
> (Applications|System Tools|Floppy Formater) - which does mount the disk
> for formating.
>
> I thought that perhaps the problem might be on this system that has gone
> from Dapper ==> Fiesty ==> Gutsy, so I tried it on a newly installed
> 7.10 system (fully updated) and got the same results.
>
> Anyone else have similar problem?
>
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