--- nigel henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 12 June 2006 20:29, David Boles wrote: > > nigel henry 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. > > > > If by 'it does not work' you mean that no icon > appears on the desktop for > > the floppy? > > > > Look in the 'Computer' folder on your desktop, or > select the 'Places' drop > > down menu and then select 'Computer' and click on > the Floppy icon. It will > > mount the floppy and a icon will appear on your > desktop. You will have to > > unmount it by selecting that in the icon menu. The > icon will disappear. > > > > -- > > > > > > David > > Hi David. That Might be ok if using Gnome. I've just > tried it and the floppy > opens ok in a file manager. I use KDE, and as I've > said the CDROM/DVDROM > drives open up this box asking what I want to do > with this media, but even > though the CDROM/DVDROM stuff opens ok in KDE, the > floppy drive has gone > AWOL. > > There was never anything wrong with all the > removable media being > in /etc/fstab. > > I'm damned if I am going to have to log out of KDE, > log back into Gnome, > (which I don't use) just to gain access to my floppy > drive. > > Which idiot, and I repeat "idiot" has decided to > remove all the removable > media from /etc/fstab? > > I admit, I don't often need to use a floppy disc, > but when you do, it would be > nice to think that you could use it. Use Kwikdisk in KDE. It should let you mount a floppy disk by default. The fstab line with /dev/fd0 /media/floppy should be present though for this to work. /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 Hope that kwikdisk/kdiskfree is installed on your computer and this little problem goes away for you. Worst case is open up a terminal $ su - password: *** # mkdir -p /media/floppy # mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy and your floppy should be mounted & ready. Regards, Antonio > > As you no doubt realise, I'm seriously T'd off with > FC5, and thats leaving > aside the Ragr 128's r128 driver problem. > > Nigel. > > -- > 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
