[Wolves] Floppy discs

Aquarius wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Sep 15 12:33:00 2003


Ron Wellsted spoo'd forth:
>> navigating to /floppy in the AbiWord save dialog, saving, and then
>> right-clicking the "floppy" link and saying "Unmount". That's arse. How
>> would you suggest I set it up so it's better?
>> 
>> Any suggestions along the lines of "don't use KDE" or "don't use
>> AbiWord" will not be entertained. I *know* that, but I can't change it.
>> You just drag a file from the save box to the floppy in Rox...
> 
> have a look at the automounter daemon (amd) this can be configured
> automatically mount the floppy (or a CD) when inserted.  It will still
> require the floppy to be manually dismounted however.

*wince* that conspicuously fails the "better than Windows" test,
though; Sam will say, not unreasonably, that it never used to be that
hard and why have i made her use an OS that makes stuff difficult? I
might be able to convince her of it if the machine would eject the
floppy when you "unmount", like Macs do, but it won't. Is there nothing
better? KDE uses the mtools to work with a floppy, which is nice of it,
but AbiWord doesn't...

Aq.

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