Please, Please,Please
 

PLEASE!!!!
If anyone knows , knows anybody , that can change this most STUPID procedure
on mounting ,unmounting a Floppy.
Everytime I get a newbie from MS$ to Linux use the floppy they have problems
using it.

Most pis---

Jim Tate

http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/ or http://submount.sourceforge.net/
I prefer supermount

In existing kernel-2.6.7.
How do you patch it in this kernel ?
I sure do not have a lot of luck appling patches.
But this does sound great.

Thanks
Jim Tate

Re: Please, Please,Please
 

newbies migrating from a Micro$haft product generally have many more problems than the annoyance of mounting drives. have you tried setting up a short (e.g. 3 character) alias for the specific floppy mountpoint?

--vq

I'm sorry , but I don't understand what your saying, how and where?

thanks
jim tate

well, i had interepereted the problems the newbies have with simply not understandign how and where things mount--correct me if this is not right (such as if they don't have permissions to mount/umount).

i'll assume two things:
1. floppy mounts to /mnt/floppy
2. default shell is bash

all you need to do is edit the users .bashrc file to contain something on the order of this line:

alias flop='mount /mnt/floppy'

this aliases the word 'flop' to the command to mount the floppy drive.

that way, when a user wants to access a floppy disc they just type flop. (i guess i gave you a four letter command instead of the three letter i had promised earlier)

you can come up with a similar easy-to-remember alias for them to unmount it .

--vq

i did leave out that this only mounts the floppy disc, it doesn't change to the directoty /mnt/floppy.

--vq