> -----Original Message----- > From: David N. Welton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:30 PM > To: Alvin Oga > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: autofs w/ floppy > > > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - its a bad idea to automount fd.... pop your mounted floppy and > > watch things go bonkers > > Well that's a poor design. If windows and mac can do it, we should be > able to as well:-/
Uh... The mac did it with specialized hardware. Windows doesn't do it at all. It just always assumes there's a floppy present. With drive letters, the very notion of mounting a volume is a bit off. > Any other ideas on how to implement something so that a computer user > who doesn't know how to do commands like 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 > /mnt/floppy' can access a floppy, easily? That's the problem I'm > trying to solve. You can always put the cryptic commands into a script but no matter what you do in sofware, standard DOS floppy hardware is just plain stupid. If you really want magic you might want to experiment with a USB floppy drive which might have a little more brains. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
