[Liverpool] Mounting floppy in Ubuntu

[Phil]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:09 -0500, LALAYNG at aol.com wrote:
> Hello Everyone!
>  
> I'm a new member in Preston Brook, Runcorn.  I have many friends and some relatives in Liverpool.
>  
> I'm fairly new to Linux, but I did a bit about two years ago, and got somewhat frustrated with trying to install software, so I gave up.
>  
> I have recently installed Mandrake 10.1 .  It works well in everything, except I cannot go on the Internet with my wireless card.  More of that later.
>  
> I have also installed Ubuntu, and find it very attractive and easy to use.  There is one problem, though.  The Floppy drive refuses to mount.  The first CDROM mounts; the second CDROM mounts.  The floppy does nothing except display the error "given UDI is not a mountable volume", whatever that means.
>  
> It is not a weird floppy type ( the Mandrake install mounts it easily), but it does not run under Ubuntu.  Any help?
>  
> I found your address from Linux Format
>  
> Best Wishes
>  
> Anthony
> 
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Anthony,

Welcome to the Liverpool LUG

Is it Breezy Ubuntu ?

It may be worth checking what version of pmount Ubuntu has installed. I
seem to remember there was a similar issue which was resolved by
updating pmount package to version 0.9.6

Regards

Phil
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