WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Basil Chupin]

On 25/09/2010 13:21, Rashkae wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>    
>> Now, seeing it there would seem that there must be something wrong with
>> my floppy(ies) which is why I busted my nuts trying to figure out the
>> problem.
>>
>> But no, the installation recognises it but the OS won't let you use it.
>>
>>      
> Yes, unfortunately, I was unable to test on a current Ubuntu install.
> However, reading more posts in that original bug report, I see that
> someone made a rather fascinating discovery.  Whatever system is
> supposed to be auto-mounting the floppies is actually unmounting them,
> when that entry exists in the fstab.  According to that poster, if you
> remove the fstab entry, then you should be able to mount the floppy (the
> long command way.)... not really a good solution overall, but would
> allow a one off like creating a flash bios disk.
>    


Thanks for this - I did see it but one has to make a selection as to 
what seems plausible to try and this one didn't cut the mustard (so to 
speak).

BUT, but, now see my update to my reply to Christopher which also covers 
this fstab thingie.

BC

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I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.