WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Christopher Chan]

> The first "fix" was to insert "floppy" as a new line in /etc/modules -
> which went down like a lead balloon in my case.

'modprobe floppy'

That should load the floppy driver.
>
> Alright, now that I have vented my frustrations accumulated over the
> past 2 days, does anyone have a REAL clue to make anything-Ubuntu
> recognise a floppy drive and display the contents of the disc in it and
> even format the disc? (Having stated this, the suggestion in the
> bug-discussion is to keep running an earlier version of Ubuntu - I think
> it is Karmic but don't quote me.)
>

After that, insert floppy into drive. Then perhaps do:

'sudo mkdir /mnt/floppy'
'sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy'
'ls /mnt/floppy'

To format the floppy with FAT, just do:

mkfs.msdos /dev/fdo