Thank you both.

Only direct mount worked, but only with root access. An improvement anyway.
gmountman just did not found anything, as nothing was detected previously.

Anyway, I had a vague memory of seeing floppy in /etc/fstab, so I checked.
It was in automount, but still not detected.
However ...

Hello and thanks.

You understood correctly on having a /home partition.
I'll give priority to the diskette drive:

Two Pc's are in question:
One with a pristine installation, where the media is not read (it just does not reads with 14.0).
The absence of an icon to drive A: is irrelevant, as long ...

So the title says it all.

Previously tried the upgrade to 14.0 but it also resulted in loss of many icons.
(Never noticed how icons are useful to travel in heavy menus)

But the worse is not having drive A:, as it is used often.
So, that would be the priority, and thus this feedback.
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