Comment 156 & 171: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/441835/comments/156 works for me as a workaround. I edited the old gfloppy menu item (from an updated jaunty) to 'mount /dev/fd0' rather than the no longer existent gfloppy in karmic. However, this workaround doesn't resolve system-wide applications, for instance:
1. The replacement for gfloppy is now the GNOME Disk Utility, which doesn't recognize the floppy even when mounted via the above. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/474938 [Gnome-Utils does not install gfloppy as described] So it seems that the only way to format a floppy in karmic is to pull in all of the relevent kde lib's and use kfloppy instead of the new GNOME Disk Utility (gnome-disk-utility). 2. The above workaround doesn't resolve the issue of Places|Floppy (changes when you actually mount a floppy & thats another bug) not working unless the floppy is mounted as above. Perhaps that application can simply be modified to use 'mount /dev/fd0'? 3. Ironically, the package: grub-rescue-pc (1.97) promotes: This package contains two GRUB rescue images that have been built for use with traditional PC/BIOS architecture: - grub-rescue-floppy.img: floppy image. - grub-rescue-cdrom.iso: El Torito CDROM image. I reckon that package will have a difficult time creating a grub- rescue-floppy.img if karmic (and lucid) can't even comunicate with the floppy in order to create the image... I've 8 systems that have floppies on my personal network & nearly 100 customers that have (and use) floppies on their Ubuntu systems (not to mention relatives, friends, etc). Failure to find a resolution for this issue affects those, and every system out there that have, and still use, floppies. I'm happy to provide any additional testing info requested to assist. -- Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
