[Novices] recording on a floppy

[Brock Inglehart]

to Lunitix and Andrew, thanks.
I tried both approaches and learned something.  It is as easy as I
imagined it must be.  I know know I had basically found it from Bruces
earlier directions but just didn't know it.  Jon, now that I know where
it is and how easy it is to copy to, I chose not to put it on my
desktop.  I can do everything from a "home" window.  Thanks again both.

Brock

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 14:15 -0400, Lunitix wrote:
> Time for me to take a stab at this also.
> 
> I may not explain this thoroughly, but it seems very simple to me.
> 
> 1. Open a konqueror window. (Click on the icon that opens your home 
> directory)
> 
> 2. In the "Location" bar, type /media
> 
> 3. This will open the "/media" directory in the konqueror window
> 
> 4. Drag the Floppy icon to your Desktop
> 
> 5.  Suse will ask if you want to "Copy", "Link", or "Cancel"
> 
> 6.  Choose "Link"
> 
> 7. You will now have a direct link to you floppy drive on your desktop
> 
> 8. When you want to put something on a floppy, You can insert a floppy, 
> and either open a konqueror window for the floppy by clicking on the 
> link on your desktop and then dragging your file of choice to the window 
> at which time you will be asked if you want to "Move", "Link", "Copy, or 
> "Cancel" the file --- or you can just drag the file of choice over the 
> icon (of the link to the floppy) and you will be asked the same 
> questions as you would have been asked if you had opened a konqueror window.
> 
> Yes the issue that is here is that Suse, and many other distro's, do not 
> feel the floppy is important anymore, thereby not giving you floppy 
> access from the desktop.  But this can be changed if you want to take 
> the small steps to create a link on your desktop.
> 
> Minding of Madness
> Jon
> 
> Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
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