[K12OSN] usb/pen/thunbdrives& floppy access>this works!

[Eric Harrison]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, David Trask wrote:

> Eric....will this work in 4.1?

I think it will work all the way back to 3.0. (assuming it works at
all, of course ;-)

-Eric

> "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
> Sun Apr 17 2005 at 23:06 +0000 wrote:
>>
>> I took a crack at packaging this. I have neither a terminal nor a
>> terminal server available at the moment, so there is a bit of a chance
>> that this first build won't actually work ;-)
>>
>> I made a few changes. First, I added the contents of ./rc.d/usbkey
>> to ./rc.d/floppyd. Second, I have ./rc.d/floppyd make ./dev/sda1
>> directly if it does not exist. Third, rather than editing
>> /etc/mtoolsrc, I set an environment variable (only if you are using
>> a terminal!) that tells mtools to read /etc/mtoolsrc.ltsp instead.
>>
>> All you should need to do is install this package and make sure that
>> the "RCFILE_01 = floppyd" line is uncommented in lts.conf
>>
>> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/RPMS/ltsp_floppyd-4.2.1-0.k12ltsp.4.2.i386.rpm
>>
>> -Eric