Re: [RULE] mounting and unmounting-script

[Ingo Lantschner]

Hi Jason,
thakns for your very valuable advices!!


Jason Bechtel wrote:
> 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.
I made some search in the Net and my impression was, that to use 
Supermount requires me to patch the kernel. Did you ever work with 
Supermount? How stable is this kernel then? Do you have some 
help/documentation *at hand*? (Dont make too much effort on this, my 
main concern was the floppy.)

> For the floppy, however, (un)mounting is
> especially problematic for newbies.  (...)
> 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.
Great idea! I checked this package out and after some testing it have to 
say, it is exactly what we searching for. Due to its graphical 
interface, which is a simple Firlemanager with zip-functionality we can 
now omit mc (and perl) which saves 50 MB of diskspace.

Thanks again, Ingo.