On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 01:23, Scott Henson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:37, Bruce wrote: > > > > > > Check out the mtools package. > > > > > > > Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related > > things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and never saw > > a command prompt, and isn't about to start now.... > > > > I was really just using the box of floppies as an example. Really, my > > question is whether there is a reliable, GUI, way to access removable > > media in linux?? > gnome 2.2 has some nice features. The disk mounter applets might be of > use. There is some limited retraining, but its one button and then the > icon for that media apears on the desktop. My parents adjusted nicly to > it. I almost forgot. Also magicdev would also be something you might wanna look at. Your gonna need an external repository, but from what I hear about it, it does what you want. It only works for CD's right now, but its a step in the right direction. Maybe burn all your mom's files to a cd-r for her... its probably eaiser to search and will most likely last longer.
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