[plug] Linux floppy drive mount/umount for windows user

Bevan Broun bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au
Wed Jul 21 20:00:50 WST 1999


I have a friend who wants to use my computer. The biggest hurdle seems
to be dealing with the floppy drive, which she insists on using instead
of the hard drive (privacy, own copy). My friend will be using Word
Perfect and need to save directly to floppy and does not want to deal
with the commandline.

Whats the best way of doing this? It seems neccasary for a daemon to be
involved in the mounting/unmounting. What are other people doing?

I have a little dock app that will mount/umount the floppy drive but
things can get confused if the floppy is ejected manually before a
umount.

BB
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