[wplug] Unbuntu + Floppy?

[L. A. Weber]

I tried changing the drive and the fact that it works with the live CD tells 
me the hardware is o.k.

Later on Friday I installed Fedora 14 from a live CD.  It also would not 
mount the floppy.  However in this case the floppy (fd and fd0) are not in 
the /dev directory so this might be a different situation.  With Ubuntu the 
devices are in /dev.

When I get back to work on Monday, I will try a DVD installation of Fedoara 
14.

By the way, what are the member's opinion of Unity?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Friarzen" <friarzen at gmail.com>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [wplug] Unbuntu + Floppy?


> Hmm, if it mounts when using the CD but not with the installed system, 
> that implies a kernel change between the two.  Maybe do an lsmod under 
> both scenarios and check to see if maybe an fd module is being left out of 
> the installed boot config.
>
> --friar
>
> "Weber, Lawrence A" <Lawrence.Weber at ansaldo-sts.us> wrote:
>
>>I need to set up a PC for embedded Linux development.  I have been using 
>>Fedora for years with very few problems.  People have been telling me how 
>>great Ubuntu is so I thought I would give it a try on the new setup.  Last 
>>week or so I posted requests for help concerning the display.  Fixed that 
>>by getting a newer PC.
>>
>>Now I find that I cannot mount a floppy drive (yes I know.... But I still 
>>need one).  I see that fstab is correct and have tried to manually mount 
>>the drive.  I get no error messages, the front light blinks and that's it. 
>>Umount tells me that it is not mounted.  Tried replacing the hardware. 
>>Tried 11.04 and 10.04 with the same results.  I cannot even add a drive to 
>>the top menu bar.
>>
>>However if I boot from the 10.04 CD the floppy mounts.   Anyone else have 
>>floppy drive problems with Ubuntu?
>>
>>
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