Hi, Thanks for the reply.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:26:46PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:24:41 +0930
> David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I finally got around to installing a 2.6 kernel and got hald and
> > gnome-volume-manager playing nicely.
> >
> > There does not seem to be any way to mount a disk image, though.
>
> As root, using the loopback device:
^^^^
That's the problem. I've managed to get things working pretty well with
a couple of nautilus scripts and gnome sudo. It's not perfect, but is
pretty close. The only downside is that you have to unmount via the
script, rather than the unmount menu item. I can live with it though.
I can post the scripts if anyone is interested - but not until I get
home, since my desktop is not on at the moment.
>
> # mount 'name-of-image.iso' /mnt/cdrom -o loop
>
> will do the job. Loopback mounts are really cool imho. :)
>
Indeed - the idea is to avoid opening up a shell, mounting as root, and
doing the same to unmount. Plus the icon should appear on the desktop.
None of these things will happen, but just mounting the image as root as
described above.
> I'm not so sure about the removable-ness of this, but I think it would
> be possible to associate a 'mount' action with an iso type filename.
>
> > It would nice to get Mac OS X like behaviour for disk images, where you
> > can just mount the image and an approriate icon appears on the desktop
> > like any other removable media.
>
> With my limited experience on OS/X, I find sometimes the mac appoach
> confusing.
>
Ha! You should try programming for it. It's a weird cross between UNIX
and Classic Mac OS. Lots of stuff that you'd expect to just work from a
unix point of view don't *quite* work until you modify things a little
bit to do it the Mac way :( Took me ages to iron out all the issues when
I first started developing for it.
cheers
dc
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