Re: Questions about Fedora 2

[Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com>]

I take offense at being called an average user. It may
take years before I attain that status! That's Mister
Newbie, thanks!

--- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:32:54AM -0500, Robert
> Citek wrote:
> > On Friday, Oct 1, 2004, at 11:18 US/Central, Ken
> Keefe wrote:
> > >How do I turn on automounting like I have in
> Mandrake? I tried to
> > >connect a usb hard drive and had to struggle to
> figure out the right
> > >line to add to fstab.
> > 
> > Automounting exists in Fedora (see
> /etc/init.d/autofs and 'man autofs') 
> >  I don't know how Mandrake does automounting so I
> can't say how it 
> > compares with Fedora.
> 
> A lot of that sort of thing is done via tools tied
> to the GUI...  I
> think the GNOME tool is magicdev and the KDE tool is
> autorun, but
> since I *hate* it when things are done for me
> automagically, I never
> install those things, so I'm not completely positive
> about that.  :-)
> 
> Apparently FC3 will be much more magic, with
> udev/hal/dbus/etc.
> managing everything on the system.  I'm not looking
> forward to it
> personally, but I could see where that would appeal
> to the average
> user.  ;-)
> 
> Steve
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