On Wednesday, January 04, 2006 @ 12:51 PM, I wrote:
On Wednesday, January 04, 2006 @ 11:02 AM, Carlos Robinson wrote:
The Tuesday 2006-01-03 at 18:01 -0900, Greg Wallace wrote:
I am getting errors in my system log related to this package because it tries to mount my floppy drive every time I boot. Is this normal?
Yes.
Is there some way to change a setting to tell Hal not to try to mount my floppy, since there is nothing in it? Here's what I'm seeing --
You can disable hald from trying to automount the floppy, and instead mount it manually when you need it, as posted here:
| Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 02:30:19 +0200 (CEST) | From: Carlos E. R. | Subject: Re: [SLE] automounting of Floppy 9.3 [solved: NOT automounting] | X-Message-Number-for-archive: 236108
last two, but all are related to this same problem. I'm not sure I even need this package,
Yes, you do need it; it maintains a sort of unified hardware database.
- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Nice to see it's such an easy tool to work with. I'm just going to jump right in, lay the code, test it out, etc. Thanks for the information/warning.
Greg Wallace
All joking aside, I think I'll probably just wait until some future release of SuSE and hope that -- a) HAL turns off fd0 as a default auto-sumbmount b) the HAL folks create some simple parameter file that you can use to specify defaults/overrides for the automatic submounts (what a concept) c) SuSE adds a panel for it under YaST (why not dream big?) Meanwhile, I'll keep my fingers crossed that, in the mean time, this thing doesn't wear out my floppy drive trying to mount it when it's empty, which is every time I boot up (who wants the floppy read at boot?). Greg Wallace