In KDE, clicking the floppy shortcut while the floppy
is not mounted does a sudo mount thingy.
When I first set up SuSE I had to change some security
settings to allow this functionality of kde to work.
Ditto the CDROM shortcut.
For floppies these days I use mtools at the command line
man mtools
The mtools package contains the mdir and mcopy commands,
which work as follows:
yuri@holly:~ > mdir a:
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory for A:/
001_st~1 png 759 09-11-2002 6:00 001_star_butterfly.png
gst200~1 sxc 14520 01-13-2003 10:34 GST.2002-2003.sxc
tax_aa~1 sdc 265728 01-13-2003 10:41 tax_aap.2001-2002.sdc
3 files 281 007 bytes
1 176 064 bytes free
yuri@holly:~ > mcopy a:*.sdc ~/
yuri@holly:~ > ls *.sdc
tax_aap.2001-2002.sdc
yuri@holly:~ >
(Yeah, I know "yuri@holly:~ >" is a weird prompt)
Yuri
Thus spake Nick Rout on this Mon, 13 Jan 2003 :
] I hope its not a silly question, but had you mounted each floppy (and
] don't forget to unmount it before ejecting it). You need to be root to
] mount the floppy, something like
]
] mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
] (do some things)
] umount /mnt/floppy
