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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.
Originally posted by mickeyboa 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
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?
Originally posted by mickeyboa 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 .
Originally posted by valencequark 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.
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