question re list

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 19:56 -0600, kwhiskers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25/10/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:09 -0600, kwhiskers wrote:
>         > How does one get a question answered on this list?
>         >
>         > I have posted my question, including all the relevant
>         details, twice
>         > and have not received one response. 
>         >
>         ----
>         Since you asked...
>         
>         http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>         
>         Craig
>         
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> I have glanced at the article. Perhaps you think my question is not
> technical enough or off topic? Or that I haven't tried hard enough to
> find the solution myself?
> 
> Well, I have scoured the documentation on hotplug, automount, udev,
> autofs (though I prefer not to use this method. It's not used for
> automountng cds, so there must be another way), etc etc.
> 
> I have scoured dozens and dozens of pages on google. They are all
> pointing to the same ideas I have had, but no solutions are posted, or
> when there are any, they are complicated patchwork scripts that one
> should trustingly run on one's system. No thanks.
> 
> Then the solutions are all ancient, dating from 2000-early 2004, pre-
> Fedora 3, in any cae, which would lead one to suspect that this
> problem has long since been solved in the newer distributions. 
> 
> I have looked into supermount, pmount, usbmount, kde volume manager,
> all of which are either old software no longer being maintained, for
> debian but never released for other distros (leading one to suspect
> they are not required there), etc etc.
> 
> I have spent at last 3 days on this working from afternoon into the
> night. I have run every permutation and combination of fstab, udev
> rules and whatever I could think of, rebooting, mounting and
> umounting, all to no avail.
> 
> Finally, I rewrote the subject line, in the hope that the problem
> might pique more interest if phrased differently.
> 
> So, what is the 'smart way' to ask?
----
I didn't follow your previous question so I had no way to know.

I only looked at what I had in front of me and you asked - so I answered
with the only appropriate answer to the question in front of me.

When you have to ask again, it's much better to rephrase the question
probably including what you have tried additionally since the original
question.

Again, I still don't even know what your question is. Sorry to continue
this phase of the thread.

Craig


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