Is there any way to access a floppy with Konq., take the floppy out, put in another, and have it see the "new" floppy without unmounting and remounting? For someone who HAS to view a lot of floppies, as a client of mine does, it's a real pain in the butt!!! "DeadRat" seems to have solved this problem in their last release, but I don't know what the setup is. Thanks! Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."
* Fred Miller <fmiller@lightlink.com> [12-20-03 18:35]:
Is there any way to access a floppy with Konq., take the floppy out, put in another, and have it see the "new" floppy without unmounting and remounting? For someone who HAS to view a lot of floppies, as a client of mine does, it's a real pain in the butt!!! "DeadRat" seems to have solved this problem in their last release, but I don't know what the setup is.
You might try automount (man automount). -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
Automount works well for mounting the floppy but doesn't help with unmounting fast enough for the type thing that Fred is likely talking about. What you need is a gui sitting on top of the mtools. I haven't needed this but there is a project at Freshmeat name MToolsFM that looks like it might be something to look at. However, just a word of warning it is GTK+ not KDE based. On Saturday 20 December 2003 19:28, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Fred Miller <fmiller@lightlink.com> [12-20-03 18:35]:
Is there any way to access a floppy with Konq., take the floppy out, put in another, and have it see the "new" floppy without unmounting and remounting? For someone who HAS to view a lot of floppies, as a client of mine does, it's a real pain in the butt!!! "DeadRat" seems to have solved this problem in their last release, but I don't know what the setup is.
You might try automount (man automount). -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
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* Kelly Fulks <kfulks@knology.net> [12-20-03 22:43]:
Automount works well for mounting the floppy but doesn't help with unmounting fast enough for the type thing that Fred is likely talking about. What you need is a gui sitting on top of the mtools. I haven't needed this but there is a project at Freshmeat name MToolsFM that looks like it might be something to look at. However, just a word of warning it is GTK+ not KDE based.
On Saturday 20 December 2003 19:28, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Fred Miller <fmiller@lightlink.com> [12-20-03 18:35]:
Is there any way to access a floppy with Konq., take the floppy out, put in another, and have it see the "new" floppy without unmounting and remounting? For someone who HAS to view a lot of floppies, as a client of mine does, it's a real pain in the butt!!! "DeadRat" seems to have solved this problem in their last release, but I don't know what the setup is.
You might try automount (man automount).
There is also kwikdisk, click mount, umount. Included with 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0 (kdeutils3-3.1.4-24.rpm). -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
On Saturday 20 December 2003 10:48 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: [snip]
There is also kwikdisk, click mount, umount. Included with 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0 (kdeutils3-3.1.4-24.rpm).
I found it - running and on the startup bar. Thanks Patrick. I'd forgotten all about that very usefull util, but I don't think I'll forget about it agan. :) Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."
I would suggest to install the mtools package and use the konqueror kio plugin floppy:/a: Just start up your KDE infocenter to get a description for this module. Greets, Daniel Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2003 00:24 schrieb Fred Miller:
Is there any way to access a floppy with Konq., take the floppy out, put in another, and have it see the "new" floppy without unmounting and remounting? For someone who HAS to view a lot of floppies, as a client of mine does, it's a real pain in the butt!!! "DeadRat" seems to have solved this problem in their last release, but I don't know what the setup is.
Thanks!
Fred
-- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."
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