auto mounting floppies

auto mounting floppies

[Stephen Constantinou]

Dear All

I received technical support from Mandriva up to the point where they 
suggest I read the manual.  I did and understood very little and was 
surprised that they would go no further.

It took several attempts to get over to them that although I can mount 
floppies manually at the command line as root and I can mount floppies 
using a "Link to Device" icon I made for the desktop I was trying to 
achieve in Mandriva 2008 what I had taken for granted in Mandriva 2007. 
  That is as follows:
   "In 2007 I can insert a floppy and navigate in
    konqueror to /media/floppy and click on the
    directory and then the floppy is mounted and
    the content of the floppy appears in konqueror."

The floppy instruction of /etc/fstab is as follows
"/dev/fd0 /media/floppy/ auto umask=0022,users,auto,exec,flush 0 0"

In Control Centre I checked the packages and found that
"autofs 5.0.2-8" was already installed.

So I read the tutorial that the Mandriva tech support man suggested:
I checked to make sure the kernel supported autofs
[root@localhost stephanos]# cat /proc/filesystems
...
nodev autofs
[root@localhost stephanos]#
It does

So I checked to see if it was loaded:
[root@localhost stephanos]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
.....
autofs4 18788 0
.....
[root@localhost stephanos]#
It was

While I do feel a sense of achievement to have done so much I did not 
understand any more and could not progress.

Any further help appreciated

Stephen

Re: auto mounting floppies

[Ian Kent]

On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 17:43 +0000, Stephen Constantinou wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I received technical support from Mandriva up to the point where they 
> suggest I read the manual.  I did and understood very little and was 
> surprised that they would go no further.
> 
> It took several attempts to get over to them that although I can mount 
> floppies manually at the command line as root and I can mount floppies 
> using a "Link to Device" icon I made for the desktop I was trying to 
> achieve in Mandriva 2008 what I had taken for granted in Mandriva 2007. 
>   That is as follows:
>    "In 2007 I can insert a floppy and navigate in
>     konqueror to /media/floppy and click on the
>     directory and then the floppy is mounted and
>     the content of the floppy appears in konqueror."

None of this has anything to do with autofs.

> 
> The floppy instruction of /etc/fstab is as follows
> "/dev/fd0 /media/floppy/ auto umask=0022,users,auto,exec,flush 0 0"

And neither does this.

> 
> In Control Centre I checked the packages and found that
> "autofs 5.0.2-8" was already installed.

Generally, autofs is not the best thing to use for automounting
removable media. Try investigating a possible problem with HAL.

Ian