df -h list output...............

I went through this too. At some point (09.10?) Ubuntu removed GUI support for
floppy drives.

I recall it works fine from a command prompt though. My interest was to make
IMG files using dd of all my floppies and churned through quite a few that way
on my 10.04 box.

Well, this computer will be used by someone in their
80's so... I will have to do some research on floppy gui

Last time I checked Puppy Linux had a nice GUI that included floppy disks.

Just checked again, with LuPu 5.28 and it does show the floppy and
open it in a graphical display. It's not ideal to have to boot up
another O/S but it is fast to load and very quick and responsive to
use.

I found a site that talks about a script (like the right click to access as
root scripts)
that you click on to mount the drive and then you can supposedly access the
floppy. When I get up tomorrow Im going to try that out.

Yea, I dont want to have to install another OS on this machine. The person
who
this is for is already uneasy about Ubuntu but I cant reinstall XP and it
cant
handle another OS. Something will work out.

that reminds me ive got a floppy drive for my thinkpads laying around i
wanted one for a long time but i got over my fear of thumb drives (1st
one i had was used and in pre linux days had a nasty virus on it) they
do anything a floppy will do and much more but if someone wants one im
sure linux can provide a way

If the PC with the floppy drive has a USB port ,you might be able to
transfer the files to an xGB USB stick on another PC ;then the files can be
transferred to the original PC´s HD or left on the stick (doing away with
the floppies altogether) Instead of saving to a stick you can save to a SD
module (in a USB caddy) With the files on the SD module the module can be
locked preserving the files. To me this would be the KISS solution to the
problem.

Yes, I could do this for her but she could not do this.
This woman barely uses her original XP much less
Ubuntu