by Hello Ben
Subject: Linux instead of Windows - just one problem
BS<> I'm running an all-Linux shop here. There's someone (the boss)
BS<> who wants one machine for himself just to do data entry in
Excel.
BS<> I'm sure if I sat him down at a Linux box with Star Office and
BS<> told him it's just like Windows, he'd be fine. That is, until
I
BS<> told him that he needs to type mount /mnt/floppy before he uses
BS<> his floppy disk, and umount /mnt/floppy afterwards. Is there
any
BS<> simple way to have the floppy drive automatically mounted and
BS<> umounted, without running development kernels or hacking at it
BS<> for 3 days and 3 nights? I'm running RedHat 5.1, standard
BS<> install out of the box.
Have a look at Mandrake 5.2 a redhat 5.2 clone but with a much better
integrated (KDE) desktop. To access the floppy drive or CD-ROM just
click on
the respective icon on the desktop and it will automatically mount
the
device for you.
KDE comes preconfigured, but much better preconfigured than on
Caldera, or
SuSE. Alternatively you could spend ages on configuring KDE on your
RedHat
distro yourself. ;-)
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Cheers, George
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