Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:51:55 -0500
Jimmy Montague <rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net> wrote:

> Is there anybody here who can make the Ubuntu GUI work with my floppy
> drive?

Not sure what your problem is really... apart from one that might
be helped by an anger management course :)

Here it seems pretty straightforward. Insert floppy. Navigate to Places
- Computer. Right click "floppy" and choose "mount".

Then click either on the icon that appears there saying 1.5 MB Media ,
or alternatively on the icon that appears on the desktop with the same
designation.

Or, after mounting the floppy, go to /media/floppy in Nautilus - but
you won't need to do that since nautilus opens it automatically on
click anyway.

Before you remove the floppy, right click the icon either in "Computer"
or on your desktop, and choose "Unmount Volume". You can also do this
from the left pane in Nautilus if you prefer.

I just tested this here on Ubuntu 8.04 and it all worked as expected.

I don't see any "creaky command lines" in the above, but perhaps I
missed something.

Peter

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