[Novices] recording on a floppy

[Andrew Thompson]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:44, John Bridleman wrote:
> * Brock Inglehart wrote:
> > Is it really probable that Something as powerful and developed as Suse
> > 9.2 doesn't have a simple floppy utility all loaded and ready to go like
> > K3B is to the CD?
> 
> It's not SuSE as much as it is KDE. I'm not a KDE user so I can't help without seeing it. Maybe someone that uses KDE can step in.

I think I can help, here. Brock, I think you know how to bring up a file
list window, right? Do that, and if you don't see an extra pane on the
left, with a set of icon tabs down the very left side, either press F9
or select "Show Navigation Panel" from the "Window" menu. That should
bring it up. Once you have it, look for an icon that looks like three
boxes (red, blue, and green) arranged in a triangle. That's the
"Devices" tab. Click that, and the left pane should show a list of
drives on your laptop, including the floppy.

Make sure you have a disk in the floppy drive, then click the floppy
disk icon, and your main window should display its contents. Also, back
on that icon bar, look for a blue, house-shaped icon. That will change
the navigation panel to show your home directory, so you can select that
or any folders below it to view their contents.

One more thing; this may help you when copying from one location to
another. You can split the main window pane in two horizontally or
vertically. They're the first two options under the Windows menu, or you
can press Ctrl-L (Left/Right) or Ctrl-T (Top/Bottom). The third option
under the same menu will remove whichever pane is currently active
(Ctrl-R is the shortcut for that), but when you have two or more panes
open, you can drag files from one pane to the other to copy or move
files. The file manager will ask which you want to do.

Hopefully all that helps. You should play around with those menu options
and the navigation pane (and its icons) to get a better feel for it all.

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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