On Tuesday 13 June 2006 02:30, S.W. Bobcat wrote:
Nigel,
Well your'e not the only one who is seriously T'd off with FC5. After 3
installs and one update to FC5, I finally had it, and dropped back to FC4.
But I think part of the problems I have been having are related to the
kernel. The 2.6.15 series works fine, however the 2.6.16 series both for
FC4 and FC5, has caused me nothing but grief. Most of my problems seem to
deal with software problems. Example Star Office 6.0 which both loads and
installs under FC4 2.6.15, does not load, or is able to even be installed
under the 2.6.16 kernel. Why? I have know idea, but I suspect that
something was changed in the 2.6.16 kernel that has created a series of
incompatabilities both with software and maybe some types of hard ware. I
too had some problems with FC5 reading a Floppy Drive, but it reads just
fine under FC4.
Bob
Hi Bob. I've fixed the floppy problem. Created a floppy directory in /media,
then copied the /etc/fstab entry from FC2 for the floppy to FC5's. Your
suggestion to create a link to device from the desktop would not work, but
only because at that time I had nothing for the floppy in /etc/fstab.
Now in KDE using Kdiskfree, I can mount the floppy, then open it in a file
manager, which is just as it is in FC1,2,3, and 4.
FC5 has no entries for any removable media in /etc/fstab. These are being
handled by another app. Hal?
I have 3 ROM drives on this machine, plus the floppy drive. When you insert a
DVD in the DVD ROM drive a box opens asking what do you want to do with this
media? In the case of a DVD there are 2 options. Do nothing, or Open in file
manager. Also there is a checkbox "Always do this for this type of media" .
Man I hate those boxes, because if you check them, and have made an error,
you have a hell of a job to find the config file to uncheck that box. The box
that opens for the CDROM drive has more options, including "Play". As the
floppy drive is removable media, I can't understand why there isn't a box
that opens when inserting a floppy, asking what I want to do with it.
Thats life I suppose. Nigel
Thanks by the way, to all the other folks that have contributed to this
thread.
Antonio
As you no doubt realise, I'm seriously T'd off with
FC5, and thats leaving aside the Ragr 128's r128 driver problem.
Nigel.
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>Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>Use Kwikdisk in KDE. It should let you mount a floppy
>>disk by default. The fstab line with /dev/fd0
>>/media/floppy should be present though for this to
>>work.
>>
>>/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
>>pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>>
>>Hope that kwikdisk/kdiskfree is installed on your
>>computer and this little problem goes away for you.
>>
>>Worst case is open up a terminal $ su -
>>password: ***
>># mkdir -p /media/floppy # mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>>and your floppy should be mounted & ready.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Antonio
>>
>>>As you no doubt realise, I'm seriously T'd off with
>>>FC5, and thats leaving aside the Ragr 128's r128 driver problem.
>>>
>>>Nigel.
>
>There is NO /dev/fd0 device, it's notr there...
>
>Doug P
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