Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??
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 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. Really, my
> > > question is whether there is a reliable, GUI, way to access removable
> > > media in linux??
> > gnome 2.2 has some nice features. The disk mounter applets might be of
> > use. There is some limited retraining, but its one button and then the
> > icon for that media apears on the desktop. My parents adjusted nicly to
> > it.
> I almost forgot. Also magicdev would also be something you might wanna
> look at. Your gonna need an external repository, but from what I hear
> about it, it does what you want. It only works for CD's right now, but
> its a step in the right direction. Maybe burn all your mom's files to a
> cd-r for her... its probably eaiser to search and will most likely last
> longer.
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Wasn't there something like automount (a daemon or so; it is named
AMD, I think). Came just to my mind.
Burkhard
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