On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:16 -0400, 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!! > Most of the size difference is removing the source and headers from the binary kernel package. Now to do compiling of modules you need to also install the kernel-devel package in order to have the headers. (Same as or similar to what was done with FC4 and the 2.6 kernels.) > 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. > > taharka > > Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. >
