kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 46, Issue 236 item 3, USB automount

[Constantinos Maltezos]

On Sunday 30 November 2008 4:59:50 am Brian Norman Wootton wrote:
> kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > Any USB drive is mounted by automount unless otherwise specified in
> > fstab, which by default it is not.  You could make one, but realize that
> > it would mount any sort of USB storage device in the same place.
>
> Thanks Constantinos, I'm happy to leave it at that, much neater than
> my poor efforts were.
> There seem to be quite a few help files missing, like 'Amarok' and
> 'KwikDisk'
> could you tell me where I can find them and how to install them.
> ta
> Brian W

Well, those can be found in adept, but for what you want to do, it's not 
entirely necessary.  If I recall correctly, all you want to do for now is copy 
the files from the disk drives.  This is done easily at the command line, but 
only if you're familiar with it.  I suggest opening the mounted drive in 
dolphin or konqueror, split the view, in the other pane, go to where you want 
to save them and drag and drop them over to that.

After that, run adept and install whatever you'd like or need to use, but it 
shouldn't be necessary to copy the files over.  I do suggest creating a new 
folder wherever you want it to copy the files to - after they're all copied, 
you can go through and move them where you want.

You know, I still mourn the (still impending) death of the floppy drive.  I 
still have one in my computer and will hopefully always keep it there, but 
considering the lack of any floppy disks, I'll probably never use it unless I 
come across some old disks of mine or get an old DOS game to run in dosbox.

I have to admit, though, I love my thumb drives.

By the way - I just had a thought.  I'm not sure how well Linux handles USB 
floppy drives.  If it runs like a regular floppy drive, you'll have to mount 
it when you put the disk in and I'm not sure how you would handle that.  If 
that fails, you might want to insert your disk before plugging it in, then 
removing it and replacing the disk and plug it in again.  Does anyone else 
here have a clue about this so I don't lead him in the wrong direction?