Upgrades sometimes flawed

[Stephane Some]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM, George Borusiewich
<v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> In the last two days, I've sent in one rant and one explanation. Now
> that I feel better, I will now humbly ask for help. As I've stated, I
> upgraded (full install)  from Linux Mint 5 (Ubuntu 8.04) to Linux Mint 6
> (Ubuntu 8.10). My floppy drive, which worked under Mint 5, does not work
> under Mint 6. According to an Ubuntu website, this is due to a bug in
> Ubuntu 8.10 (bug #255651). From this site and 2 others, it seems that
> the floppy drive module is not being loaded. The solution being offered
> is to "add the module floppy  to /etc/modules and then modify the fstab
> file to automount the floppy." Being a noobie this means absolutely
> nothing to me. I have no experience with working in a terminal. May I
> ask if someone can explain to me in simple language what I have to do to
> get my floppy drive working again? George Borusiewich


In order to add module floppy try at a command line: sudo gedit
/etc/modules, then write
floppy right after the lines starting with #.
Save the file and reboot. You should have the floppy module loaded



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