[K12OSN] floppy issues on fc5 and k12ltsp

[Petre Scheie]

Much has changed, and it's a good thing! ;-)  In LTSP 4.2, which K12LTSP 5.x is based 
on, the Local Device Access system was completely re-written.  Now, things like USB 
sticks 'just work'--you plug them in and an icon appears on the desktop; you unplug 
them, and the icon disappears.  Same for CDs (non-music) and floppies.  Are your clients 
booting via etherboot floppies by chance?  If so, users will automatically see an floppy 
icon on the desktop because there's floppy disk in the drive.  You can turn this off if 
you don't want floppy access on the client.  If you're not using etherboot floppies, you 
should just be able to put a floppy disk in the client's drive and the icon will appear 
on the desktop.  When you're done writing to the floppy, just pop it out and the icon 
should disappear.

Petre

fhkms at adelphia.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have the latest stable version of k12ltsp running on my small school network.  In the past, I have handled the floppy drive situation by manipulating this file:
> 
> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf
> 
> I would remove the # from the string:  #Rcfile_01 =floppyd
> 
> With this latest version of k12ltsp, I have floppy icons popping up on users workstations desktops, as well as folders that say "floppy".  I'm confused.  What has changed?  I would like to get back to the point where students either have mtools on their desktop, or where only the floppy drive on the server works, so students have to go through me to save things to floppy (prefered).  I'm not big on the command line, or with using a text editor.  Thanks for any help.
> 
> Will
> 
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