Roger Leigh dijo [Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:49:54PM +0100]: > > How shall I answer that? > > I know that I myself use auto-mounting extensively and also don't expect my > > father to type someting like "mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" > > Absolutely, but this is a separate issue. You can still, in any desktop > environment, click on a CDROM icon in the filemanager/desktop/wherever, > and have the CDROM automounted. That's done with pmount. > > This is only /automatic/ mounting on CDROM insertion, where it pops up > a window or runs a program on insertion. Without this automatic HAL > notification, you can still easily access the CD without any manual > "mount" command.
...Which sadly matches user expectations. Since we deactivated the autorun facility for a laboratory of Windows machines I have nearby, users regularly knock at my door asking why their CDs don't work anymore. Grmbl... -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
