IBM T23 - DVD & Floppy Drives help?

[dchartrand scclab com]

I have just recently installed RH8 on a T23 Laptop. So far so good.

1) Currently I only have : /mnt/cdrom : the cd-rom in question is actually a DVD
drive. I would like to have a : /mnt/dvd : directory. Also, i am missing :
/mnt/floppy : which is a hotswap device that is not usually installed, but on
occasion is necessary.  How can I get RH8 to auto configure these devices? If
autoconfig is not available, what is the best way to manually configure this myself?

2) Is it possible to do hotswaping i.e. removing my DVD drive and replacing it
with the floppy drive while the system is running? If so, how? As it stands, all
i get is a beeping noise until the system is shutdown.

Thank you for your time