--- 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. > > > > > > -- > > 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
