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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
