Civileme....neat concept. Next we could create a 'My Computer'
icon on the Desktop to put all of those device icons in,
wdaya'think? :-)
Alan
P.S. do you REALLY have a user with that id? ;-)
Civileme wrote:
>
> Dale Morris wrote:
> >
> > Ramon,
> > Thankyou for your concise and thoughtful reply. I have saved it for future
> > reference. I have tried the entries you suggested for my fstab file and
> > it just isn't working. I am including a copy of my fstab file in hopes
> > someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I am able to mount vfat
> > floppies, just can't get the ext2 working. I've tried all the
> > obvious.. Here's the fstab file, the way it came configured in Mandrake
> > 7.0:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> > /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> >
> > thanks again
> >
> > --dale
> >
> > "my mind is scheduled to clear tomorrow, then not again for another 400 years."
>
> Dale,
>
> Supermount is a new feature in filesystems which came about
> basically with mandrake 7. Use the
> /dev/fd0 /somemountpoint auto sync,rw,user,nosuid,unhide 0 0
> as a line in fstab while putting a # in front of the /mnt/floppy
> line and see if that helps
> You will then have to specifically and explicitly
>
> $ mount /dev/fd0
>
> before reading or writing ext2 filesystems
> and
>
> $ umount /dev/fd0
>
> when you are ready to remove them.
>
> Supermount seems to have been a concession to windows users, and
> I have made use of it. Since /dev/fd0 was automounting when a
> floppy was inserted, I did
>
> ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/msbrainwasheduser/Desktop
>
> and then I changed the icon of that "shortcut" folder to a
> mounted floppy--(it changes to a locked folder when no floppy is
> inserted) and hid the supermount icon by adding a dot to the name
> of the kdelnk
>
> Now ex-windows users can drag a file to the floppy icon in
> complete comfort. (Hey, you can't do that in windows that
> way--only in MAC was the icon on the desktop.)
>
> Of course, they had trouble saving to floppy from StarOffice,
> because they had to navigate ALL the way to /mnt/floppy from
> /home/msbrainwasheduser/Office51/work and then they might have to
> mount the floppy as well.... SO
>
> ln -s /mnt/floppy /home/msbrainwasheduser/Office51/work
>
> made them even more unhappy because now they can't cry to their
> bosses that there are too many steps to using linux to save a
> file to floppy. They know they are losing the campaign to bring
> windows back.
>
> Civileme
>
> --
> experimentation involving more than 500 trials with an
> ordinary slice of bread and a tablespoon of peanut butter
> has determined that the probability a random toss will
> land sticky side down (SSD) is approximately .98
