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Renaming USB mount points using udev, HAL, and hotplug

To change the mount point of a USB flash drive in Fedora Core 4, create a new file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty called 10-storage-policy.fdi with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="volume.label" string="KINGSTON">
      <merge key="volume.policy.desired_mount_point" type="string">usbdisk</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

For my Kingston flash drive, I use the volume.label key to identify the appropriate device, and then set the volume.policy.desired_mount_point to usbdisk. Run lshal to see key-value pairs for all HAL Unique Device Identifiers.

Installation notes for Fedora Core 5 on IBM Thinkpad T41

Updated from Fedora Core 4 to 5 without incident. To get the wireless (ipw2100) to work, install the freshrpm-release. Then yum install ipw2100-firmware. Remove the ipw2100 and ieee802311 modules then bring up your wireless interface. Wired ethernet works. Sound works. You can fetch mplayer from freshrpms as well. Remove all old mplayer installs with rpm. Then yum install mplayer. USB works. Touchpad works. If you have trouble with sound, check you mixer settings (alsamixer).

Installation notes for Fedora Core 5 on Dell Dimension 9100

The nvidia drivers do not compile. Apparently, the kernel was compiled in a odd way (?) and many third party drivers do not work. I would think that an update would be issued soon.

Building External Linux Kernel Modules Under Fedora Core 3


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Last update: Tuesday, March 28, 2006