Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Saturday 23 August 2008 17:07, John O Laoi wrote: > Thanks to everyone. > > Problem solved. > > Yes, I misunderstood "fdisk -l". I assumed that it would list > > the CD partition also. I think that CD's don't have partitions. You mean filesystem. > > I never even tried to mount the CD, as I tho

automounting in xfce

2008-08-23 Thread John O Laoi
Thanks to everyone. Problem solved. Yes, I misunderstood "fdisk -l". I assumed that it would list the CD partition also. I never even tried to mount the CD, as I thought that when it was not being seen by fdisk, it was not there, and there was nothing to mount. Also I've learned how to instal

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,20.Aug.08, 21:43:30, John O Laoi wrote: > Hi, > > I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4. > > Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them. > > > I have done some googeling, and it seems that I need to use Thunar's volume > ma

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Burkhardt
John O Laoi wrote: > > I've tried some of these solutions. > > However, when I insert a CD say, and run > > # fdisk -l > > it does not even see the CD volume, > > so there is no device to mount. > > > What could be causing that? Hi John, I'm pretty sure 'fdisk -l' only lists hard disk part

automounting in xfce

2008-08-21 Thread John O Laoi
I've tried some of these solutions. However, when I insert a CD say, and run # fdisk -l it does not even see the CD volume, so there is no device to mount. What could be causing that? John

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
John O Laoi wrote: > > > Thanks for the help. > > > I am having problems installing the package thunar-volman. > > This is a package management problem, at which I am no expert! > > > The package is not available on etch, but is on the list of packages for > sid: > > http://packages.debian.

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:22:46AM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > Thanks for the help. I've looked into this a bit more. You're running etch. etch's thunar does not depend on, and probably can't use thunar-volman. http://packages.debian.org/etch/thunar tells us that it suggests hal and pmount. This i

automounting in xfce

2008-08-20 Thread John O Laoi
Thanks for the help. I am having problems installing the package thunar-volman. This is a package management problem, at which I am no expert! The package is not available on etch, but is on the list of packages for sid: http://packages.debian.org/sid/thunar-volman However, when I issue

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:43:30PM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4. >> >> Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them. >> >> >> I have done some googeling, and

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:43:30PM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > Hi, > > I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4. > > Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them. > > > I have done some googeling, and it seems that I need to use Thunar

automounting in xfce

2008-08-20 Thread John O Laoi
Hi, I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4. Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them. I have done some googeling, and it seems that I need to use Thunar's volume manager, and do the following in Thunar: Edit | Preferences, Click