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
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. Be
Two things, Robert. Make sure that autofs is built into your kernel. And
to start off, use a copy of /etc/auto.master.dpkg-dist and
/etc/auto.misc.dpkg-dist into /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc to get you
going with a good example. I would make one change, however. In
/etc/auto.master, chan
if you have used apt-get to install autofs, you can out-of-the box just
cd /var/autofs/misc/floppy
if you want to get to it from /floppy, you could
ln -s /var/autofs/misc/floppy /floppy
if don't really want to bother with the /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc
files...
but if you do, j
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