On Monday 16 Dec 2002 12:38 pm, you wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Monday 16 Dec 2002 11:51 am, you wrote: > >>>My latest experiments, based on John's comments that auto is almost as > >>>good as supermount, has got it working now, apparently, but I don't have > >>>an automatic mount and manual umount, as his post seem to suggest. I > >>> can live without supermount, though it is undoubtedly convenient when > >>> it is working. > >> > >>Well let me just clarify that, I'm talking about the mounting and > >>unmounting from > >>desktop icon, merely leftmouse click the icon and it automatically > >>mounts the device > >>and displays the contents, to unmount merely rightmouse click down to > >>eject and it > >>automatically unmounts as well as ejects. > > > >This sounds a good way - but how did you set it up? How do you get the > >lift-click-action and right-click-action? I presume it's user-mountable? > > > >Anne > > Simplicity itself, on desktop rightmouseclick to create new cdrom device, > upcomes CD/DVD-ROM Device, alter this to whatever you prefer,it's > just a name, I don't like long names , so cdrom, and cdrom2 is good > enough for me, do the permissions, everyone gets permission, > in device , dropdown list to point at the relevent device, eg. /dev/sd0 > (/mnt/cdrom) and your done.
Got it - I had made the wrong choice from the menu, created the wrong kind of link, so that unmount was never an option. I've re-done it and it seems to work perfectly. Anne
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