Re: Removable media on FC5

[Akop Pogosian <akopps LS Berkeley EDU>]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 01:10:16AM -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Akop Pogosian wrote:
> >On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:47:29PM +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
> >  
> >>Akop Pogosian wrote:
> >>    
> >>>After putting a vanilla FC5 installation on my PC, I noticed that data
> >>>CDs are not being mounted and that audio CDs are not being
> >>>played automatically any more. What happened? I can mount the CDs
> >>>with mount command though.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>-akop
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>have you ever installed FC5 before? ... or have you just switched from 
> >>windows? ... in other words .. are you new to FC5 ?
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >That's the first time I installed it. It find it strange because this
> >"just works" on other Fedora versions.
> >
> >
> >-akop
> >
> >  
> Is this a fresh install or an upgrade from previous versions? You can 
> try (if using gnome) to go to System>Preferences>"Removable Drives and 
> Media" and see what is set. In KDE, a window should nag you when you add 
> anything. Also make sure that there is no CDROM location set in the 
> fstab. I don't know why, but the automounting seems to not work in FC5 
> when something is there for the CDs.
> -Steven

It's a fresh install and those settings in Gnome are set to mount the CD
automatically. There is nothing for CD in /etc/fstab. /dev/cdrom and
/dev/dvd do point to the correct device files.