I've read over Mr. Raymond's doctorate on how to ask questions the
"smart way" in the past (usually when I need to induce vomiting
quickly), and I can tell you that, although the man's intentions were
good, the document comes across as just a bit heavy handed.
Also, I've read over the poster's original question, and it seems as
though he did provide quite a bit of information.
David-Paul Niner
kwhiskers wrote:
On 25/10/05, *Craig White* <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:09 -0600, kwhiskers wrote:
> How does one get a question answered on this list?
>
> I have posted my question, including all the relevant details, twice
> and have not received one response.
>
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Since you asked...
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
Craig
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I have glanced at the article. Perhaps you think my question is not
technical enough or off topic? Or that I haven't tried hard enough to
find the solution myself?
Well, I have scoured the documentation on hotplug, automount, udev,
autofs (though I prefer not to use this method. It's not used for
automountng cds, so there must be another way), etc etc.
I have scoured dozens and dozens of pages on google. They are all
pointing to the same ideas I have had, but no solutions are posted, or
when there are any, they are complicated patchwork scripts that one
should trustingly run on one's system. No thanks.
Then the solutions are all ancient, dating from 2000-early 2004,
pre-Fedora 3, in any cae, which would lead one to suspect that this
problem has long since been solved in the newer distributions.
I have looked into supermount, pmount, usbmount, kde volume manager,
all of which are either old software no longer being maintained, for
debian but never released for other distros (leading one to suspect
they are not required there), etc etc.
I have spent at last 3 days on this working from afternoon into the
night. I have run every permutation and combination of fstab, udev
rules and whatever I could think of, rebooting, mounting and
umounting, all to no avail.
Finally, I rewrote the subject line, in the hope that the problem
might pique more interest if phrased differently.
So, what is the 'smart way' to ask?
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