[Intrepid] Floppy - was Re: (unknown)

[NoOp]

On 11/25/2008 02:56 PM, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:44 -0800, NoOp wrote:
>> Seems as if the Intrepid 8.10 folks forgot to add floppy.
> 
> Nope, it's there alright, but hidden in the menu. Rightclick the
> Applications menu -> Edit. Go to System Tools and check Floppy
> Formatter.
> 
> IIRC the reason it is hidden is that there is some issue or other with
> it, and floppy formatting is planned to be added to some other app. The
> current state of affairs, with the only Gnome GUI app to do it being
> buggy and hidden, certainly sucks but that's how it is right now
> 
> 

Ummm... if you click on that you will receive an error msg _unless_ you
modprobe floppy first. Now I could be wrong as my Intrepid was
upgraded/downgraded from a well working Hardy (with floppy support), so
perhaps a clean install of Intrepid work without doing 'modeprobe
floppy' first. Does yours work?