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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stephanos]# cat /proc/filesystems
...
nodev autofs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stephanos]#
It does
So I checked to see if it was loaded:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stephanos]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
.....
autofs4 18788 0
.....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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