leeg100 wrote: > On Tuesday 01 October 2002 04:17 pm, s wrote: > > On Monday 30 September 2002 08:28 pm, leeg100 wrote: > > > So... how do I make removable media in Mandrake 9.0 > > > under KDE act like they do in say, Redhat? In RH 7.3, > > > you right-click a CD or Zip drive icon and select > > > "mount" or "unmount". Nice and easy and no need to > > > type a mount command if a shell prompt is not open... > > > and apparently safer than Mdk's supermount. > > > > I ddin't see where you got an answer so I'll take a stab > > at it. Well, disable it first in fstab, and then right > > click your kde desktop and choose make a new floppy > > device (or even the cdrom one will work too). Then > > adjust the settings to your drive and pick out an icon. > > It should now have mount and umount in it's right click > > menu. To disable supermount, type as root: supermount > > -i disable. -s > > Thanks for all the replies, folks. "supermount -i disable" > fixed it. Creating a new device worked, but for some reason > the Zip no longer has an "eject" choice on the context > menu. Not really a biggie, but curious. > > Lee
make a new icon linked to your ZIP drive from the 'CD/DVD-ROM device...' choice (which has an context menu 'eject' choice). -- Alan
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