[RULE] mounting and unmounting-script

[Jason Bechtel]

For the CDROM, you want supermount (or one of its
equivalents).  It abstracts out the
mounting/unmounting and it's very easy.  Put in
the CD and when you try to use it (via a program
or command-line or whatever) supermount tries to
mount it.

For the floppy, however, (un)mounting is
especially problematic for newbies.  Especially
since even after writing to a floppy, some
buffers are remain queued and unflushed for a
long time.

In my experience it's much easier to just tell
people that to use a floppy, they have to use a
particular program.  That program would be
MToolsFM.  It's a GTK+-based GUI front-end to the
mtools package.  mtools is a set of command-line
tools for doing DOS-style disk access.  The tools
are named like their DOS equivalents but with an
'm' at the beginning:  mcopy, mdir, etc.

You can find MToolsFM here:

<http://www.core-coutainville.org/MToolsFM/>

It's a very small program, so it should work well
on low-resource systems.

Good luck!
Jason


---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: Ingo Lantschner <ingo.lists at vum.at>
Sent: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:29:54 +0200
Subject: [RULE] mounting and unmounting-script

in order to make Linux usable for the ones who
are completly new to computers, we are looking
for a solution to mount and unmount floppys and
cdroms.

The main problem here is, that even if the mount
fails, the user does not see a message. This is
worst in the case of umounting the floppy (for
the cd I used eject, wich gives a reasonable
feedback to the user)

So my question is, if someone who already has the
experience and knowhow can write these 4 scripts
(mount and umount floppy/cdrom), which gives in
the case of errors some feedback to the user.
Xdialog is already installed on these systems,
since they use the screengrabbertool from rule.

Thanks in advance, Ingo.

---- End Original Message ----



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