Maybe I was able to figure it out. There is a program in synaptic called
"fdutils" if this is enabled it will make the floppy work.
I am not sure but prior to that I did try this that I found in a 8.10 bug fix.
To load floppy module
floppy
to the end of the list. Save the file & Close
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26513174/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26513175/ExtensionSummary.txt
** Attachment added: "profiles.ini.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26513176/profiles
