On Monday 12 June 2006 21:50, Antonio Olivares wrote: > --- nigel henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > -- > > > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
