[Gutsy] Automount Floppies

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 26 01:22:01 UTC 2008


On 01/21/2008 01:29 AM, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:

> Strangely, I used a floppy yesterday for the first time in a while, in 
> 7.10.  When I clicked the Floppy icon in Computer, it made mounty 
> noises, but then ended up showing me a listing of "/".  However, when I 
> browsed to /media/floppy the disk was mounted.  The other strange thing 
> was that I had to use the icon on the desktop to get an "unmount" option 
> because that option did not appear when right-clicking in /media or in 
> Computer.
> 
> But with some small niggles, it worked fine for me, so it's not 
> universally broken.
> 
> 

Ah! Thanks! That gives me one more thing to figure out this weekend :-)
Also, I just did the same (Places|Computer|) clicked on floppy0 and it
works. Puts an icon on the desktop + puts one in Nautilus etc. I'd not
tried Places|Computer previously. Perhaps it's operator headspace on my
part... still would like it to automount similar to a CD.








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