Re: Using floppies: NOTHING TO DO WITH MOUNTING

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

John Hall <john200_@yahoo.com> writes:

> This is NOT about mounting floppies. Now that I've installed Linux,
> along with x-windows and gnome, I want to know how to open floppies and
> cd-roms to extract files, while in the gnome, kde or any x-windows
> eniroment. Thanks

Install the MTools and hope that the gmc (Gnome Midnight Commander)
has compilöed in support for it. The Midnight Commander hat it
compiled in at some time, but not anymore.
Maybe you have to recompile with some option enabled.

For CD-roms, you would need the automounter and if you did it for
CDroms, you can do that for flopies as well instead of using mtools.

May the Source be with you.
			Goswin