Hi Edward, Where do you want that add that please? Thanks in advance,
Anne-Marie On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:31, Edward Haven wrote: > Removable Disks > For KDE to read any disk, removable or not, the disk must first be mount. > When a device is mount it can then be read, it gives KDE all the needed > information about the device, how to read it, how to write information to > it, and much more. > Now that we have an understanding of what mounting is lets see how to mount > a device. First know defining a device is controlled by the operating > system and it is important your operating system has tools for managing > these devices. KDE can also auto mount devices, working with HAL (Hardware > Abstraction Layer). > The Easiest way to find the media device is enter the protocol media:/ or > system:/media in to the konqueror location bar or navigate to it by: > 1.clicking on the system tab in the meta bar, followed by selecting Storage > Media. > 2.Go -> Media > 3.clicking the system desktop icon, then Storage Media. > 4.expanding the System menu on the KDE panel, and selecting Storage Media. > The media:/ protocol will show all device which are recognized by the KDE, > including the hard drive and CD and DVD drives. If setup correctly USB and > Firewire device will also be here. > You can also setup KDE to deplay a devce icon on the desktop. To start or > configure this feature in the control panel go to Desktop -> Behavior and > select the Device Icon Tab. The device icon action can be used to show > divices when mount and unmount, or to only create an icon when media is > detected and automounted(only if automount is properly configured), by not > checking the unmounted boxes. > > Automount > > With KDE 3.5 and newer, devices can be automount, meaning one only has to > insert the removation disk. KDE will open an automount prompt asking the > user "what do you want to do?" with the media. To configure the list of > options prompted for devices open: > Conrol Panel -> Peripherals -> Storage Media Here you can add and remove > programs from the list of devices. > The automount feature will only work if dbus, hal, udev are installed and > the kernel is properly configured. To find out if they are running on your > system cheek the Process Table in KDE System Gaurd for: hald, dbus-deamon, > and udevd. > KDE does not provide any of these components. You must cheek with you > distrobution. > > Mounting > > If your system does not automount KDE is configure to mount and unmount > deivce which the current user have permision to mount. If a divce is mount > as root(ie the root partion), and you login to KDE as a user, KDE can not > mount or umount it, without being given a higher permission. To cheek a > devices mount premission see the /etc/fstab file. > To mount and unmount devices manually in KDE one only has to right click > the device icon in media:/ or on the desktop and select mount/unmount, for > removable devices one can also unmount with remove device safty. KDE still > requires the device to be setup in /etc/fstab.
