Mounting disks in Fedora Core 3

[GreyGoose]

In Fedora Core 1 and 2 (and any other distro I have used) you could always insert a disk into the floppy drive or CD tray and it would either automatically mount itself or you could use the disk management tool under "system tools". In Fedora Core 3 I've tried this and it won't mount anything or sometimes it will tell me that I need administrative privilages and to "contact my systems administrator", etc. I've also noticed that all of these drives (CDRom, Floppy, Zip, etc) that were previously mounted in the folder /mnt are now located in a folder called "/media" but I still can't copy/paste/transfer files to and from these drives or even mount them.

What gives here and am I missing something?

Thank's

[RedFedora]

Perhaps you should check your /etc/fstab file. Make sure that users, not just root,
can mount floopies and CDs.

[Chas.H]

Have a look at /etc/fstab
Is the change to "/media" reflected there or is it still "/mnt"?

[jayemef]

FC1 and 2 also generically called the cdrom drive "cdrom." In FC3 though, mine comes up as cdrecorder. cat /etc/fstab and see what yours should be. Feel free to copy and paste it here. You should be able to mount it with

mount /media/cdrecorder

or whatever it's called in your fstab.

[olivierl]

Hi

I am a total newbie in Linux and I am sure I'm going to love this forum.... I have many problems of setting up Fedora Core 3, and right now I need my zip drive... And it does not work...
I looked in my "/etc/fstab" like you guys said but I have NO IDEA what to look for. Here is the file, any suggestions:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t ,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t ,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Thanks for your time

[olivierl]

oops, sorry for the smileys, here is the file"
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t ,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t ,exec,noauto,managed 0 0