Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Bart Silverstrim]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:51:55 -0500
> Jimmy Montague <rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net> wrote:
> 
>> Is there anybody here who can make the Ubuntu GUI work with my floppy
>> drive?
> 
> Not sure what your problem is really... apart from one that might
> be helped by an anger management course :)

Or a reading comprehension course...

He's pissed because the floppy shows up but the name isn't right. If he 
manually changes it then it's getting stuck on the desktop when he 
ejects it, and only rebooting clears it up.

The creaky commands were from when I suggested using mount to mount 
/dev/floppy to /mnt/floppy, not stopping to check that there's really a 
/mnt/floppy directory already, so he was petulant and decided to ram 
through the commands despite the first error instead of stopping to do a 
sudo mkdir /mnt/floppy.

 From there, it degraded to him simply refusing to actually comprehend 
what I said nor will he read anything and just listen to what others 
have told him.

It's a quirk with the way it's automatically mounting the floppy and the 
fact PC floppy drives don't sense new media and notify the OS the way CD 
drives and USB controllers do.
A workaround is to use the mount command.
File a bug report or move to something other than floppies since a lot 
of systems are moving away from using them at all anyway.

Instead he insists Win3x and MacOS could do it fine (even though Win3x 
had a floppy DRIVE icon, not a floppy disk, and MacOS was on hardware 
that notified the OS to changes) and that Linux is written by baboons 
since it can't handle is 1.4 meg of data the way he exactly wants it 
handled, and any need for a "workaround" to the quirk obviously makes 
Ubuntu unusable by newbies like him.