HI all

I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 and I have some really bad effects on the system.
One of them is that the CDs are now mountet in /media instead of /mnt, but no matter if I edit /etc/fstab file, next reboot the lines I added weren't there (??), so I decided to give up (i don't mind that much having to mount in /media instead of /mnt).
What really gets me angry is that i have 2 symlinks pointing to the same device.

/dev/cdrom ---> /dev/hdc
/dev/cdwriter ---> /dev/hdc

The burner is /dev/hdc, and I erased cdrom symlink and created a new one EVERY time booted to FC3, and whenever i check why CD is not working, I see the system changed back /dev/cdrom ---> /dev/hdd to the prevoius one.
I tried to disable kudzu at startup, but still no avail.

Why on earth I cannot configure FC3 as I want??
I'm really disappointed with FC3 team...

Hi.

The problems you're experiencing are due to Fedora using udev instaed of the old devfs. It's not really Fedora's fault (the old devfs has been deprecated in the kernel). Have a look at this:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/

Dave

Thanks for the quick answer. I upgraded udev as suggested, and I still cannot change the mountpoint to hdc and hdd. As for the symlinks, they just dissapeared. So I really don't know what to think...

The reason the symlinks dissappear is because all the entries are created at boot or when hardware is added, so /dev gets unmounted when you shut down and you lose all your device nodes.

If you really want your /dev/cdrom then create a block device with the right major and minor numbers and put it in /etc/udev/devices - it'll be placed in /dev when you boot, and hopefully it won't get overwritten.

Dave

Thanks for the tips. I really don't mind if I don't have /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdwriter, but I would like to have the dvd and burner mounted in /mnt...
But i think if I cannot do it, I'll get used to mount them in /media.
What I don't understand is why I can't edit fstab and change that. I don't like being forced to mount media in one specific place rather than chosing the one I want to mount them.

You should still be able to add lines to fstab. Only lines with 'managed' in them are handled by udev/hotplug. I've not tried it myself though...

Dave

I'll try to remove the "managed" option in fstab and see results. I'll post them.