[ale] Auto-mount floppy in Fedora

[andrew mcmackin]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 18:48, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 11:39, Joe Knapka wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I've googled and browsed around the RH doc some, but have not found
> > an answer to this no-doubt-trivial issue. Is there a way to configure
> > Fedora (Core 1) to  auto-mount the floppy drive whenever a floppy
> > is inserted, as it does with the CD-ROM?
> 
> Not possible due to hardware issues. There is no automatic notification
> of an insertion event in a standard floppy drive. USB floppies are
> different and Mandrake's supermount works well with it. My RedHat stuff
> (Once I configured the usb stuff correctly) also will automount and open
> my usb floppy.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -- Joe
what dose your /etc/fstab file look like. i guess you have all ready
tried this but you could change it to make it auto mount(much like the
cd drives). if you have not tried that i'll go into more detail about a
possible solution in another e-mail and if you have well at least i
tried. 
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