I figured this out - want to know how? Send me a dollar! :p okay, I'm not super educated on HAL, or udev, so I'm not sure where this permission/group stuff is configured. But apparently hal needs the user attempting to mount the floppy to belong to group disk. Once I added my user to disk I was able to mount floppies.
gpasswd -a [username] disk, log out/in and should be good to go. At least this worked from my removable floppy. -- media:/ does not handle floppy mounting correctly https://launchpad.net/bugs/30207 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
