[K12OSN] local USB devices (flash drive) on K12LTSP 4.4

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Sun Jul 10 03:56:16 UTC 2005


On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Gavin Chester wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 10:17 -0700, Eric Harrison wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> -snip-
>
>> K12LTSP does include a tweak to the mtools/floppyd configuration
>> that lets it work with USB memory sticks. Try inserting a thumb drive
>> into a terminal and click on the "Floppy Drive" icon.
>
> I've not worked out how to access this feature on a desktop sans icons,
> as comes with Xfce.  I guess IceWM users would have the same issue
> without desktop icons.  So, how _do_ I access removable from terminal
> utilising the tweaks you wrote to make it easy, Eric?

The "floppy icon" just runs MToolsFM. So create a launcher (or whatever
they happen to call it in Xfce) for that application and you should
be good to go.

-Eric




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