WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Rashkae]

Basil Chupin wrote:

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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/udisks/+bug/441835
> 


Allright, what I gather from that thread is that the Gnome/Freedesktop 
gui automount thing isn't working with floppy devices anymore.  The 
kernel and udev still recognizes the floppy, (so no need to manually 
insert floppy  modules.)  We just have to kick it back old school a bit.


Someone already started the first steps, to test:

sudo mkdir /mnt/floppy
sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t vfat

At this point, you should be be able to read the contents of your floppy 
drive in the /mnt/floppy directory.  Don't forget, before removing the disk:

sudo umount /mnt/flopyy

Assuming that works, and you want something a little more permanent, you 
have to edit your /etc/fstab file.  It's not a bad idea to make a backup 
copy of this file first, and test that you are able to boot from a live 
cd (in case a mistake is made and you need such a drastic measure to 
correct it)

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Then append this line to the bottom of the file

/dev/fd0   /mnt/floppy  auto  rw,users,noauto  0  0

Now when you want to mount the floppy drive, from terminal:

mount /mnt/floppy


Before ejecting the disk:

umount /mnt/floppy

You can create gnome "launchers" to execute these commands if you use 
floppy often.  There also used to be a large variety of disk mounting 
applets that were common back in the day before automount when this was 
common practice in linux systems.