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


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