My knowledge of FC5 is limited, and it is different from FC4. I've had
nothing but bad luck with FC5, as apps that run under FC4 won't run
or can even be installed in FC5, but in my case I seem to have tracked it
back to the 2.6.16 series of kernels. Might this be a hw problem caused by
the kernel? I have know idea, BUT under FC4, and hopfully under FC5, you can
try the following:
1) Lft click on the Destop, a dropdown menu should pop up.
2) Select, "Create New" --> "Link To Device" --> "Floppy Device"
That should create a FD Icon on your desktop. It should automount when you
insert a floppy into the drive and should unmount when you kill it. The icon
however should remain on yout desktop however.
Hope this helps
From: nigel henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Monday 12 June 2006 21:50, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- 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
All I get from that is "mount can't find /dev/fd0/media/floppy in
/etc/fstab
or /etc/mtab" . That is a true statement as removeable media is no longer
in /etc/fstab.
I use FC2 on both my machines with no problems whatsoever. I know I'm going
to
lose support from Fedoralegacy soon for security updates, but anythings
better than moving to a later version, and finding that I can't even access
my floppy drive using KDE.
Someone, and I'm sorry about the language, seriously wants to get their
shit
together. Either put all the removable media, CDROM/DVDROM drives, and
floppy
drives back on /etc/fstab, or at least fix the problem where KDE users
cannot
get access to a floppy.
Nigel.
>
> 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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