On Saturday 26 August 2006 06:32, Tom Patton wrote:
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 00:57 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
Have seen some chatter on this list that auto mounting was backed out of the kernel for some reason or other, and left to the distro or desktop providers.
Don't know If I got the details right.
I can't confirm your statement, but I can confirm the result of it! I have wasted tons of hours and the price of the boxed set on 10.1 and am backing out to 9.3 today!
Automount will NOT work in twm or fvwm2 by any method I've tried. It works SOMETIMES in kde by clicking on the removable device in "my computer" and then finding it in /media/.
Well, as I understand it, its not Novells fault. Talk to who ever makes the kernel decisions these days. You ALWAYS have the option of running autofs package which is still available, and still works. man autofs -- _____________________________________ John Andersen