No floppy device in FC5

[nigel henry]

On Monday 12 June 2006 21:50, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- nigel henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> 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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