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You want to use your diskettes and CD-ROMs. You want to have fast and easy access to these devices in KDE.
Since SuSE Linux 6.0, the two folders /cdrom
and /floppy
are included by default in the root directory "/
".
Information on previous versions of SUSE Linux can be found here:
Previous Linux versions.
If you want to use a diskette, place it in the floppy drive and type the following command.
tux@erde:/ > mount /floppy
You can now change to this drive with the command cd /floppy
and access the data on that drive.
Before removing the diskette from the drive, you will need to unmount the floppy, prior to unmounting
the floppy you will need to exit out of the /floppy
directory:
tux@erde:floppy/ > cd
tux@erde:/ > umount /floppy
mount
and umount
.
The only difference is the parameters: instead of /floppy
use /cdrom
, for
example:
tux@erde:/ > mount /cdrom
tux@erde:/ > umount /cdrom
With KDE you can create desktop icons for devices that you want to mount, ie. diskette and CDROM drives. With just one mouse click on the CDROM icon, the CDROM is mounted and the KFM (File manager) is opened. By right-clicking on the icon, a drop down menu appears from which you can select the option to unmount the drive. The floppy drive is accessed the same way.
The following steps walk you through how to take advantage of this KDE feature.
/etc/fstab
which describes your
floppy device. To select a particular image for your icon, you simply click on the images that
appear in the lower portion of the window. Additional image choices will appear and can be selected
simply by clicking on them. Note that you can choose different images depending on whether the
device is mounted or unmounted. Click on the OK button to save the
changes and exit.
/floppy
directory.
Click with the right mouse button on "Floppy" icon and choose the command Unmount
from the drop down menu. Then you are free to remove the diskette from
the drive.
/etc/fstab
.
If you are using a version SuSE Linux older that 6.0, You need to create the following folders as root.
root@erde:/ > mkdir /cdrom
root@erde:/ > mkdir /floppy
In addition, the file /etc/fstab
must correctly specify
on which interfaces your diskette and CDROM devices are connected.
Naturally any modifications can only be accomplished while logged in as
root user. Below is an example of the entries that must exist in
/etc/fstab
. In this example, there is a 3.5" floppydrive A
and an ATAPI CDROM drive connected as a slave device on the secondary IDE
port.
/dev/hdd /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
Additional information can be found on Mounting, Partitioning and configuring filesystems.
See also:
Keywords: MOUNTING, DISKETTES, CDROM-DRIVES, KDE, ZIP
Categories:
Hardware
, CD-ROM
, K Desktop Environment
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