Re: Open office + mounting Auto MSDOS floppy drive.

From: Adam Aube (aaube01_at_baker.edu)
Date: 02/09/04

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    On Monday 09 February 2004 09:53 am, Gregory Machin wrote:
    > Could someone please advise mo on how to setup the automount for MSDOS
    > in fstab. I need Open Office to write to msdos floppy disks. Using
    > Mandrake 9.0 + KDE ..

    This is a Debian list, not a Mandrake list.

    And that functionality is usually provided by an automounter (such as amd,
    automount, or autofs), not in fstab itself. See what automounter your
    distribution provides, and check its documentation for how to set it up.

    Adam 

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