Re: No floppy device in FC5

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On Tuesday 13 June 2006 02:30, S.W. Bobcat wrote:
> Nigel,
>
> Well your'e not the only one who is seriously T'd off with FC5. After 3
> installs and one update to FC5, I finally had it, and dropped back to FC4.
> But I think part of the problems I have been having are related to the
> kernel. The 2.6.15 series works fine, however the 2.6.16 series both for
> FC4 and FC5, has caused me nothing but grief. Most of my problems seem to
> deal with software problems. Example Star Office 6.0 which both loads and
> installs under FC4 2.6.15, does not load, or is able to even be installed
> under the 2.6.16 kernel. Why? I have know idea, but I suspect that
> something was changed in the 2.6.16 kernel that has created a series of
> incompatabilities both with software and maybe some types of hard ware. I
> too had some problems with FC5 reading a Floppy Drive, but it reads just
> fine under FC4.
>
> Bob

Hi Bob. I've fixed the floppy problem. Created a floppy directory in /media, 
then copied the /etc/fstab entry from FC2 for the floppy to FC5's. Your 
suggestion to create a link to device from the desktop would not work, but 
only because at that time I had nothing for the floppy in /etc/fstab.

Now in KDE using Kdiskfree, I can mount the floppy, then open it in a file 
manager, which is just as it is in FC1,2,3, and 4.

FC5 has no entries for any removable media in /etc/fstab. These are being 
handled by another app. Hal? 

I have 3 ROM drives on this machine, plus the floppy drive. When you insert a 
DVD in  the DVD ROM drive a box opens asking what do you want to do with this 
media? In the case of a DVD there are 2 options. Do nothing, or Open in file 
manager. Also there is a checkbox "Always do this for this type of media" . 
Man I hate those boxes, because if you check them, and have made an error, 
you have a hell of a job to find the config file to uncheck that box. The box 
that opens for the CDROM drive has more options, including "Play". As the 
floppy drive is removable media, I can't understand why there isn't a box 
that opens when inserting a floppy, asking what I want to do with it. 

Thats life I suppose.  Nigel

Thanks by the way, to all the other folks that have contributed to this 
thread.
>
> 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.
>
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> >Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> >There is NO /dev/fd0 device, it's notr there...
> >
> >Doug P
> >
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