On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:47:12PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
>
> Different removable media is different (because of the hardware). The
> biggest issue is floppies on x86 systems. The insertion mechanism is
> purely mechanical and sends no notification to the software. Likewise
> for t
On 2 Apr 2003, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 01:23, Scott Henson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:37, Bruce wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Check out the mtools package.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related
> > > things, but don't
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:37:40PM -0500, Bruce wrote:
| >
| > Check out the mtools package.
|
| Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related
| things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and never saw
| a command prompt, and isn't about to start now
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 01:23, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:37, Bruce wrote:
> > >
> > > Check out the mtools package.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related
> > things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and neve
Bruce wrote:
> >
> > Check out the mtools package.
>
> Mom [...] never saw a command prompt, and isn't about to start now
>
> I was really just using the box of floppies as an example. Really, my
> question is whether there is a reliable, GUI, way to access removable
> media in linux??
You
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:37, Bruce wrote:
> >
> > Check out the mtools package.
> >
>
> Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related
> things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and never saw
> a command prompt, and isn't about to start now
>
>
>
> Check out the mtools package.
>
Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related
things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and never saw
a command prompt, and isn't about to start now
I was really just using the box of floppies as an example.
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:33:49 -0500
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Check out the mtools package.
"Mom tools"?
(Sorry, I couldn't resist)
Kevin
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"Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, I know I will have trouble convincing her when it comes
> to removeable media.
>
> For example, "Mom" has been using a computer for a long time and has boxes
> and boxes of floppies. And she needs to find that letter to Aunt Edith
> written o
I am currently running several desktop machines running Debian Woody,
including various updates (KDE 3.1.1, etc.) for added usability.
Generally, Debian is great. For my personal usage, I can't see any
reason for using anything else as a desktop machine.
However, I would like to set up a Debian m
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