Re: Floppy disk access in Gnome.

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 26 Oct 2001, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:

> On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 16:42, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> > Have you considered that this is gnome, not linux kernel or automountr
> > project?
> 
> It is a gnome issue, not a linux issue.  Linux users useing linux as a
> server are not going to have a problem with mounting disks etc, but
> grannys and other average non-geeks are not going to understand it.
> 
> Just as I had a problem when I switched to windows with it's not knowing
> if there was a floppy in the drive (The amiga knew, great that was)
> 

Get a real floppy drive then or complain to the people who made yours.

> I guess gnome needs to adopt an automount system rather than leaving it
> up to the distros.  
> 

if distros don't like it how would you get it anyways? besides, if you
already were running an automounter...

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