Description of problem: Anaconda dose not add entries for the /dev/fd0 floppy drive, or the /dev/sr0 DVD-RW drive to the /etc/fstab file. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a fresh install of F8 and check the contents of your /etc/fstab file. Actual results: The default /etc/fstab after a fresh installation looks like this on my system: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda10 swap swap defaults 0 0 Expected results: I expect the installation program to detect my floppy drive and DVD-RW drive, and add appropriate entries to the /etc/fstab file for each device, and also create the mountpoints for those devices under /media. Additional info: I had to hunt around in /var/log/dmsg and find out the name of the device that my DVD-RW was attached to. I then added the following entries to my /etc/fstab file: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 # DVD-RW drive VOM-12E48X /dev/sr0 /media/dvdrecorder iso9660 rw,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 I then had to create the mount points in /media for floppy and dvdrecorder.
They're not added intentionally. Use gnome-mount (or mounting within nautilus, konqueror, etc) instead
Thankyou Jeremy. That's fine if one is using X. What if someone is running a bar http or other server without X? They might want to make backups of some data or configuration files to DVD/CDROM. So how would they mount the DVD/CD drive then without having the relevant entries in /etc/fstab and the mount points? I have added the above two entries to my fstab, and still have HAL running as well. There does not seem to be any conflicts with this setup :)