PS> Huh? Modern distributions have either a) an automounter running or b)
 PS> icons on the desktop to access, for example, the CDROM drive - and if
 PS> you click on that, it automatically mounts the disc.

Well, I used the KNX_-hdinstall thing and I do get a icon on the desktop 
for the floppy - not the zip or the CD drive though, but when I click on 
the icon, I get a message that says "Unable to run dir/file:/mnt/floppy"

I've worked my way up the tree into root and see the /mnt section, has hda, 
and a couple of other things in it, no floppy, but when I click on HDA I 
get zero files, zero (something esle.)  :)


 PS> Windows 98SE or anything not of the NT line also doesn't have any
 PS> security, no matter what applications you use or don't use. There is
 PS> simply no way to achieve real security with FAT as the underlying
 PS> filesystem. NTFS is a different story.

Yes, and that is a key reason for me to want to embrace this thing - but 
jeeze it's getting damn hard to do so!


 PS> I'm amazed that people still defend Windows and MS applications after
 PS> all those security holes and privacy issues (like Word documents
 PS> carrying tons of information about the system they were written on and
 PS> about the document's history).

that last part is not in W98Se, but it's also the reason I won't upgrade to 
later version of Windows. :)

But a point here:  I'm neither a Lx or Win basher, just a guy trying to get 
a system that's somewhat easy to use and as secure as possible.  At THIS 
time Lx fails on point one - I can't get it to work at all other than 
getting the dialer, the mail reader and the browser to run - but then since 
I have no access to any storage device, what's the sense in surfing the 
web? :)

W98SE works like a champ for ME - it has some warts in the security stuff, 
and I'm aware of them but by running virus protection etc, have been able 
to keep from a major disaster.



 

 
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