Floppy Drive Gone
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jul 25 21:00:31 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:16 -0400, taharka wrote:
> Steve Croteau wrote:
>
> >Greetings,
> >
> >I was just minding my own business the other day when I decided to write a
> >file to my floppy drive using FC3. Much to my surprise the icon I always
> >found under "computer" was gone. Looked in /etc/fstab and found no
> >reference. I had just used it 2 weeks ago. Could an update have removed it
> >for some reason? The same thing happened to my other FC3 box. What is the
> >exact entry I need to put this back into /etc/fstab?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Steve
> >
> >
> >
> Yes, same issue here on fc3 :-( I found the culprit to be the Jul 15th
> kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 update. Surprisingly, it's not an selinux
> issue, as rebooting with selinux disabled, makes no difference.
> Reverting back to the previous kernel, kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, corrected
> the problem for me. BTW, notice below, the size difference between these
> two kernels. Almost 11Mb!!
>
Most of the size difference is removing the source and headers from the
binary kernel package.
Now to do compiling of modules you need to also install the kernel-devel
package in order to have the headers. (Same as or similar to what was
done with FC4 and the 2.6 kernels.)
> Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version : 2.6.11 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release : 1.35_FC3 Build Date: Mon 13 Jun 2005
> 01:47:10 AM EDT
> Install Date: Fri 24 Jun 2005 01:43:31 AM EDT Build Host:
> bugs.build.redhat.com
> Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM:
> kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.src.rpm
> Size : 49045635 License: GPLv2
> Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 23 Jun 2005 11:17:08 PM EDT, Key ID
> b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
> Description :
> The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
> the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
> functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
> allocation, device input and output, etc.
>
>
> Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version : 2.6.12 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release : 1.1372_FC3 Build Date: Fri 15 Jul 2005
> 02:03:29 AM EDT
> Install Date: Fri 15 Jul 2005 06:19:48 PM EDT Build Host:
> tweety.build.redhat.com
> Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM:
> kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.src.rpm
> Size : 38112195 License: GPLv2
> Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri 15 Jul 2005 12:40:56 PM EDT, Key ID
> b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
> Description :
> The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
> the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
> functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
> allocation, device input and output, etc.
>
> taharka
>
> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
>
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