[plug] To Paul Dean

[James Elliott]

Hi Paul

I just installed Red Hat 7.3 choosing mostly the defaults.  Where do i find
'autofs' and how do I run it?

James Elliott
Ravensthorpe Computers
ABN 34 305 232 710
Tel:   08 9838 1043
Fax:  08 9838 1049
Cell:  0428 39 6052
E-mail:  James.Elliott at wn.com.au
Australia Post:
PO Box 228, Ravensthorpe WA 6346
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Dean" <paul at thecave.cantech.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:43 AM
Subject: RE: [plug] To Paul Dean


> Hya,
>
> On reading this, James do you have 'autofs' running? It's a daemon for
> automounting drives eg floppy and cdroms. This may actually create the
> icons for you.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Steege, Phil E wrote:
>
> > My Redhat 7.3 KDE desktop has icons for floppy and cdrom that automount
> > them.
> > Regards,
> > Phil
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Elliott [mailto:James.Elliott at wn.com.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:05 AM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] To Paul Dean
> >
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > Does your copy of Red Hat 7.3 have KDE icons for floppy disk and
CDROM's?
> > (or do you use Gnome?)
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > James Elliott
> > Ravensthorpe Computers
> > ABN 34 305 232 710
> > Tel:   08 9838 1043
> > Fax:  08 9838 1049
> > Cell:  0428 39 6052
> > E-mail:  James.Elliott at wn.com.au
> > Australia Post:
> > PO Box 228, Ravensthorpe WA 6346
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul Dean" <paul at thecave.cantech.net.au>
> > To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [plug] To Paul Dean
> >
> >
> > > Hya James,
> > >
> > > No probs, I'm glad that you where successful this time in the
> > > installation. Enjoy and don't forget if you need a hand with something
> > > I'll try my best help out.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, James Elliott wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Paul
> > > >
> > > > I thought you might like to know that I tried to install Red Hat 7.3
> > again
> > > > and this time it worked fine.  I must have done something wrong the
> > first
> > > > time around.  The reason I didn't try again earlier was that I had
> > > > Uni
> > exams
> > > > coming up and didn't want any hassles, so I went back to 7.1 for a
> > while.
> > > >
> > > > One think I notice that is different is the lack of floppy disk and
> > CDROM
> > > > icons on the KDE GUI.  I use KDE as my default environment and in
> > > > Red
> > Hat
> > > > 7.1 and 7.2 I had the Floppy disk icon and CDROM and CDROM1, and if
> > > > you wanted to use any of them you clicked on the cion and it
> > > > auto-mounted.
> > > >
> > > > Once again, many thanks for taking the time and trouble to burn the
> > > > CD's
> > and
> > > > send them to me.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > >
> > > > James Elliott
> > > > Ravensthorpe Computers
> > > > ABN 34 305 232 710
> > > > Tel:   08 9838 1043
> > > > Fax:  08 9838 1049
> > > > Cell:  0428 39 6052
> > > > E-mail:  James.Elliott at wn.com.au
> > > > Australia Post:
> > > > PO Box 228, Ravensthorpe WA 6346
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Paul...
> > >
> > > /***** Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to
> > > recognize a mistake when you make it again.
> > > -- Franklin P. Jones *****/
> > >
> > > /*****All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy
actors.
> > >            -- Unknown*****/
> > >
> > > /* How smart are Computers? They seem to need instructions all the
> > > time...
> > > -- Me */
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Paul...
>
> /***** Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to
> recognize a mistake when you make it again.
> -- Franklin P. Jones *****/
>
> /*****All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
>             -- Unknown*****/
>
> /* How smart are Computers? They seem to need instructions all the time...
> -- Me */
>
>
>