how to configure automount to mount my 250 GB secondary HDD which is
shown in hardware browser ?

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Zed Wyx <mizzler@lycos.co.uk> writes:
>how to configure automount to mount my 250 GB secondary HDD which is
>shown in hardware browser ?

Why do you want to use automount for this?  Just mount it.

man fstab.

scott

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Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Zed Wyx <mizzler@lycos.co.uk> writes:
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> Why do you want to use automount for this?  Just mount it.
>
> man fstab.
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> scott


it seems it is not as easy as it should on my 64 bit Fedora c3 machine

Thank u anyway,
Zed

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Zed Wyx wrote:
> Scott Lurndal wrote:
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> it seems it is not as easy as it should on my 64 bit Fedora c3 machine
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> Thank u anyway,
> Zed

When I try to mount /dev/hdb as shown in the KDE hardware browser, the
following unhelpful error message is given:

mount: can't find /dev/hdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

which is surprising since the drive is known to the hardware browser and
was identified during FC3 installation. FC3 is installed on a partition
of hda.

One wonders why and how FC3 fails to make available a known FAT32 250GB
hdd subsequent to installation-nothging was asked about wanting to use
this drive or not.

And why can the KDE hardware browser see it if it's not in the
/etc/fstab or in /etc/mtab ?

This seems to be a pretty poor performance  by the system.

Also the built-in soundcard was recognised during installation, but was
subsequently dumb. Issuing the command system-config-soundcard caused it
to be correctly identified again and test sounds to be played. But that
surely should not have been necessary post installation ?

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