From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Constantinou Subject: auto mounting floppies Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:43:02 +0000 Message-ID: <47AF37A6.1010004@writeme.com> Reply-To: stephanos@writeme.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org To: Auto FS Mailing List 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