Re: No floppy device in FC5

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--- 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

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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