[wplug] Continuing saga of rh9 on IBM X31

[Vanco, Don]

automount is / has always been an iffy thing.  Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn (alan cox has explained this at length on the RH betal list if
anyone needs details).  It's much simpler to not rely on it.  from a command
shell simply type "mount -a" or "mount cdrom" and you should be fine.
Similarly, "eject" will both unmount and eject the CD.
 
Some file managers (like Nautilus) have various "friendly" means to handle
removable media, but all are far more tedious IMHO than doing it via command
line
 
YMMV
Don

-----Original Message----- 
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org on behalf of Jennifer Landefeld 
Sent: Sun 1/11/2004 7:25 PM 
To: wplug at wplug.org 
Cc: Jennifer Landefeld 
Subject: [wplug] Continuing saga of rh9 on IBM X31



First, many thanks for all the assistance with this install at the fest
on Saturday. It is greatly appreciated.

Now, on to a question: CD's no longer automount on the desktop.

What we did:

Installed rh9 standard distro
updated distro to current kernel (and the wholesale list of updates
were installed via rh up2date -- after we patched that to function
properly)
uninstalled OO installed with rh (v 1.0.x)
installed OO 1.1 from OO.org
attempted to install Matlab - from CD but did NOT have the license file
to complete that. Now, here's the odd thing, it mounted the CD's when I
first tried this.
not active on CMU internal via cable at my desk yet SO brought in a
Linksys wireless PCMCIA which was recognized right off.

Somewhere between the first attempt to load Matlab and working on it
BEFORE the wireless card was popped in it has ceased to automount the
CD.

Any ideas gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,
Jenn

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