On Thursday 08 March 2007 16:18, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > I use Fluxbox as my GUI > > wishes / wants -- i would really love the flash cards from my camera to > automout and be read/write automatically
You would probably want hald, dbus which are now installed by default when you
emerge KDE applications. You may also want to install ivman for
automounting. Personally, I have stayed away from ivman and added something
like this to my ~/.fluxbox/menu to choose when I mount/unmount my flashcards:
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[submenu] (CF / camera)
</usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/slick/32x32/devices/camera.png>
[exec] (mount CF) {pmount /dev/sda1 && konqueror /media/sda1}
</usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/devices/compact_flash_mount.png>
[exec] (unmount CF) {sync && pumount /dev/sda1}
</usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/devices/compact_flash_unmount.png>
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The assumption being that your camera/flashcard reader is detected
as /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda. Adjust or duplicate as required.
Alternatively, you need to launch Konqueror every time before you navigate to
Storage Media and click to mount your camera device therein.
> Id also like the external usb / firewire drives and flash (thumb) dries to
> do the same thing
As my comments above.
> the hdd is 80gb and i will be partitioning it thusly:
>
> 32mb - boot
> 1gb - swap
> remainder /
Unless you are keen to keep your boot time in the nanoseconds, I suggest that
you add a few more partitions and have swap (/dev/hda1), / (/dev/hda2), /home
(/dev/hda3) on primary partitions. The remaining goes into an extended
partition (/dev/hda4), and /usr/portage (/dev/hda5) and /boot (/dev/hda6) on
logical partitions thereafter. My rational is as follows:
When you use swap you want it to be as fast as it gets. Root and /home come
next. You keep /home on a separate partition for ease of back ups and to
simplify a reinstall in the future, or a transfer to another machine
altogether. /usr/portage goes on a separate partition to minimise fs
fragmentation. /boot goes last because you only access it once every time
you boot and it is small enough to quickly move/back up/restore to another
partition if you decide to add some more partitions to your scheme.
DISCLAIMER
Before anyone starts shooting me down, this is just my preferred way of
partitioning a laptop. No doubt there are umpteen partitioning schemes out
there, some simpler, some more complex, some of which involve LVM, EVM; etc.
Not all of them maximise access/read/write times for the most often used
directories/files and minimise fs fragmentation.
> it has 1gb memory onboard
I wish mine did too. ;-)
> i have 2 hard drives for the machine, so i will keep the current gentoo
> install, and swap the other one in to build on, but that keeps it from
> being a rush job and hopefully i can get it right the first time. I will
> be taking this machine with me for 3 weeks storm chasing this summer and i
> need to be able to depend on it to always JUST WORK without hassles etc.
>
> I am looking for recomendations / suggestions / pitfalls etc to assembling
> this machine -- i will be following the manual for the build, but if anyone
> has done this type of builds in the past and has suggestions etc id
> appreciate recomendations, or links to appropriate howtos etc. Many of the
> things i want to add / build have howtos associated with them, and i will
> be using them.
If you like your current desktop and applications configuration you can copy
over most config files from /etc and /home onto your new drive and then
emerge packages as you need them.
--
Regards,
Mick
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