Floppy Drive Gone

[Paul Howarth]

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!!
> 
> 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.

Perhaps that's because the latest kernel splits off a substantial part 
of the original package into a separate kernel-devel package as per FC4?

Paul.