Upgrades sometimes flawed

[Eugene Cormier]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:26 -0500, Stephane Some wrote:
> 
> 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  

If you are using gedit the command should be:

gksudo gedit /etc/modules

Right?? I've heard you need to use gksudo for permissions issues when
using a graphical app....sudo is for command line stuff only


Eugene

> floppy right after the lines starting with #.
> Save the file and reboot. You should have the floppy module loaded
> 
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