On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 11:41 -0700, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2007 10:45 AM, tms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 10:28 -0700, Robert Citek wrote:
> > > [...]> Some of the kids don't know how to save files to mem sticks or
> > > floppies either,
> > >
> > > In other words KDE under Debian doesn't automount removable storage.
> > > In Ubuntu there's an option one can change: System > Preferences >
> > > Removable Drives and Media > Storage. Does something similar exist
> > > for KDE?
> >
> > Debian DOES automount removable storage, at least with etch it does.
>
> When we put a floppy into a student machine, we had to open Konqueror,
> click on Removable Devices, right click on the floppy image and select
> mount. Before doing those steps we could not save an OpenOffice.org
> document to the floppy. We had to do similar steps before removing
> the floppy. And this was with Etch.
>
> If Debian Etch does automount, then perhaps there's some setting we
> need to adjust.
>
> FWIW, Debian does automount CDs.
And USB memory sticks, and digital cameras.
For floppies, just insert a floppy into the drive, then click on the
"Home" icon to bring up a file browser. Navigate to Storage Media
(there's an icon for it on the left-hand toolbar of the file browser),
click "Floppy Drive" and it will then mount whatever floppy disk you
have in the drive.
t.
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