On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:58, expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
You don't mention which version you are using. This is available on 9.0. I haven't tried it but the info seems to point in the direction of what you are searching for. Submount is a system for automatically mounting and unmounting removable media drives like CD-ROMs and floppy disk drives. Once installed, it allows removable media drives to be accessed as if they were permanently mounted. Example line for a CD-ROM drive in /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro 0 0 Example line for a floppy drive in /etc/fstab: /dev/floppy /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,sync -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)