I upgraded from Fedora Core 4.

All seemed well.

But I can no longer use my floppy drive?

Nothing is in the etc/fstab or mtab files pertaining to the floppy.

When I do look at the structure in /media, I get /media/floppy-1, /media/floppy-2, /media/floppy-3, and so on... every time I try to remount the floppy, a new /media/floppy-# sequence appends.

The end of the sequence is the only one where I can access files, but I have to go through the file manager to do it. The icon will not open up the drive. This is a new phenomenon.

What can I do?

Thanks from a still-

There is no entry in /etc/fstab ?
So you can add one.
Look at your FC4 /etc/fstab for more details or take my fstab as an example :
After that, you can clean the /media with the command :
rmdir /media/floppy\-*

Hi,

Is the cdrom doing the same? From what little I've messed with FC5, it looks like they changed the way removable media is mounted. I guess in an attempt to allow a non root user to mount and or umount media. From what I've seen, removable media such as a traveldrive isn't auto mounted when one is logged in as root. Otherwise it is. The cdrom or floppy doesn't seem to auto mount in either case. I thought FC5 was supposed to be an improvement? Perhaps "different" is a better word...


Stan

The media handling has changed, so that gnome-mount is now the recommended method for mounting removable drives from the command-line:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/releas...fc5/#id3103424

YES. I discovered, the hard way as the 3D nvidia driver failed and I couldn't access the thing from command-line sessions. (The GUI will see the drive when I put in a disc, but with no GUI, Linux doesn't know what to go do with itself when I put in a disc. but as with the previous response to me, the fstab file needs to have the definition replaced... Still, a bit annoying but has helped to an extent; I got the 2D nvidia driver back up...)

But I digress. Why FC5 would bleep out all these fstab media settings is beyond me...

I did do a 'new' setup in a vmware session and it also lacked the fstab entries...

I almost regret upgrading to FC5 at this point. But things will get better.

Thx for the link!

This auto-mount isn't bad overall... but I wish they would have made the rc3.d bootup script incorporate the old-sk00l settings, if possible. Oh well! I virtually never use the command line interface anyway...