On Monday 12 June 2006 21:50, Antonio Olivares wrote:
--- nigel henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
> On Monday 12 June 2006 19:10, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:59:39AM -0700, Douglas
>
> Phillipson wrote:
> > > When you say, "It should just work", does than
>
> mean a file manager
>
> > > should pop up when a floppy is inserted and a
>
> mount point created?
>
> > AFAIK, you have to mount it by hand, though as I
>
> said it's been
>
> > a while since I've had to resort to using a
>
> floppy, so things
>
> > may have changed (though from the sounds of
>
> things, they haven't)
>
> > > It doesn't and there are no /dev/fd? devices.
>
> There are some entries in
>
> > > a directory called /dev/fd, which don't appear
>
> to be floppy related:
> > They're your per-process file-descriptors.
> > You should have a /dev/fd0
> > does lsmod | grep floppy show anything?
> >
> > Dave
>
> Well as I've just posted, inserting a floppy in FC5
> returns nothing, although
> removable devices are supposed to be autodetected
> with FC5. CDROM stuff is
> detected, although with a lot of bulls,,t
> boxes,asking what you want to do
> with the media.
>
> I've just moved the same floppy to the other machine
> running FC2, opened
> Kdiskfree, mounted the floppy, and then opened it in
> a file manager. Works
> like clockwork.
>
> Nigel.
Floppies are not automounted when you insert a floppy
in an FC5 machine. In most cases you have to become
root to mount it via command line.
# mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
All I get from that is "mount can't find /dev/fd0/media/floppy in /etc/fstab
or /etc/mtab" . That is a true statement as removeable media is no longer
in /etc/fstab.
I use FC2 on both my machines with no problems whatsoever. I know I'm going to
lose support from Fedoralegacy soon for security updates, but anythings
better than moving to a later version, and finding that I can't even access
my floppy drive using KDE.
Someone, and I'm sorry about the language, seriously wants to get their shit
together. Either put all the removable media, CDROM/DVDROM drives, and floppy
drives back on /etc/fstab, or at least fix the problem where KDE users cannot
get access to a floppy.
Nigel.
It worked beautifly for FC2 - FC4 (Using either system
tools -> disk management -> user mount tool or
kdiskfree/kwikdisk) since I skipped FC1.
some CD are not automounted either, but when that
happens I mount them through command line.
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