hi robert to automount the floppy as a user...
first check that the user can mount the floppy ( in /etc/fstab or manually entered options in /etc/auto.misc ... floppy -suid,user,fstype=vfat :/dev/fd0 have fun alvin http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Robert Voigt wrote: > It was not easy to find out that autofs works out of the box for floppy > and cd. It's behavior is not intuitive at all. > I also made symlinks from /floppy to /var/autofs/misc/floppy and the > same for /cd. But this causes the cdrom drive to rattle everytime I go > to / in Konqueror, and ls / hangs. Besides, I still have to type umount > if I want to remove the cd or floppy before the timeout for the > automatic unmounting. This is not what I wanted. > > When I had Mandrake I just selected supermount at install and it worked > most of the time. > > For now I returned to typing mount and unmount everytime I want to > access a floppy or CD. Maybe I'll shorten it with an alias. > > Autofs works for the nfs filesystem, so this is at least one plus. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >