A better way for Floppies and CDs ( was : fedora floppy ready )

Parameshwara Bhat pbhat at ongc.net
Sun Jun 6 12:44:26 UTC 2004


Hello List,

Two days ago,there was a thread about whether Fedora is floppy ready.The 
solutions given though will work,they all require the user to close the 
using application, explicitly unmount floppy /CD and then insert another . 
That's quite a bother. Then there appears to be something in Konqueror 
( KDE Filemanager ) that keeps reference open to Floppies / CDs even after 
the window is closed making it imposssible to unmount Floppy / CD . This 
can be a great source of frustration in Linux.

I would suggest the said user to have a try at using autofs as the auto 
mount/unmount tool for removable media. He just have to follow 
step-by-step the page at http://freespace.sf.net/guidod/howto/autofs.html.

And one more step to avoid KDE error messages : Remove autorun file from 
~/.kde/Autostart/Autorun or rename to something like 
autorun.desktop~.That's it.Now you can access Floppies and CDs just as in 
Windows.But before taking out,one should move up the directory structure 
not to be accessing them ( especially for Floppy )

Parameshwara Bhat

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