Re: Of removable devices

From: Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 06:44:29 EST


In <38AB5E5E.ED40B7B6@mandrakesoft.com> Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com) wrote:
> Horst von Brand wrote:

> if mounted by vold: use as mounted fs
> if not mounted: use device directly, 'fdformat /dev/fd0' etc.

> How difficult is that?

For "novice user" ? VERY difficult.

> vold, volcheck and other Solaris tools are really minimal extensions to
> automount. No big deal or rocket science, and not hard to get right.
> The toughest thing is training the users...

If we need to retrain the users the whole idea does not worth it: from the
very beggining this discussion was about "how to NOT RETRAIN the Windows
users to new way of doing things with floppies/CDs". Of course instead of
retraining users you can try to rewrite programs and this way can be easyier
but also not very easy...

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