Re: Floppy Drive Gone

Paul Howarth wrote:

taharka wrote:

Steve Croteau wrote:

Greetings,

I was just minding my own business the other day when I decided to write a file to my floppy drive using FC3. Much to my surprise the icon I always found under "computer" was gone. Looked in /etc/fstab and found no reference. I had just used it 2 weeks ago. Could an update have removed it for some reason? The same thing happened to my other FC3 box. What is the exact entry I need to put this back into /etc/fstab?

Thanks,
Steve

Yes, same issue here on fc3 :-( I found the culprit to be the Jul 15th kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 update. Surprisingly, it's not an selinux issue, as rebooting with selinux disabled, makes no difference. Reverting back to the previous kernel, kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, corrected the problem for me. BTW, notice below, the size difference between these two kernels. Almost 11Mb!!

Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocatable)

Version     : 2.6.11                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.

Release : 1.35_FC3 Build Date: Mon 13 Jun 2005 01:47:10 AM EDT Install Date: Fri 24 Jun 2005 01:43:31 AM EDT Build Host: bugs.build.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM: kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.src.rpm

Size        : 49045635                         License: GPLv2

Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 23 Jun 2005 11:17:08 PM EDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2

Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.

Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocatable)

Version     : 2.6.12                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.

Release : 1.1372_FC3 Build Date: Fri 15 Jul 2005 02:03:29 AM EDT Install Date: Fri 15 Jul 2005 06:19:48 PM EDT Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM: kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.src.rpm

Size        : 38112195                         License: GPLv2

Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri 15 Jul 2005 12:40:56 PM EDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2

Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.

Perhaps that's because the latest kernel splits off a substantial part of the original package into a separate kernel-devel package as per FC4?

Paul.

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.