From 6aa392e1314567b23ab733fc5e8cf8332a344452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Sl=C3=A1vek=20Banko?= Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:52:37 +0100 Subject: Move the khelpcenter guides to the directory level in which they are installed. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Slávek Banko (cherry picked from commit 1b6c123de102f0152d296fba8771d348329ba95c) --- doc/userguide/removable-disks.docbook | 122 ---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 122 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 doc/userguide/removable-disks.docbook (limited to 'doc/userguide/removable-disks.docbook') diff --git a/doc/userguide/removable-disks.docbook b/doc/userguide/removable-disks.docbook deleted file mode 100644 index 92929dcbe..000000000 --- a/doc/userguide/removable-disks.docbook +++ /dev/null @@ -1,122 +0,0 @@ - - - - - -Edward -Haven -edward.haven@gmail.com - - - - -Removable Disks - -For &tde; to use any device, removable or not, the device must -first be mounted. When a device is mounted, &tde; gets all the needed -information about the device: how to read it, how to write information to -it, and much more. - -The use of a device is controlled by the operating -system and it is important your operating system has tools for managing -these devices. &tde; can also auto mount devices, working with -HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). Your distribution -should have set up HAL automatically; if not, -consult the documentation provided by your distribution. -There are several ways to find the list of media devices: use -whichever one suits you best: - - - -Enter media:/ or -system:/media into the &konqueror; location bar. - - - -Navigate to it by clicking on the Services -tab in &konqueror;'s Navigation Panel, then selecting Storage -Media. - - - -Select GoStorage Media - from the &konqueror; menus. - - - -Click the System desktop icon, then from -the window that appears, click on Storage -Media. - - - - - -The Storage Media location (also known as -the media:/ protocol) will show all devices which are recognized by -&tde;, including the hard drive and &CD; and DVD -drives, as well as USB and Firewire devices, -provided that your distribution is set up correctly to tell &tde; -about them. - - - You can also setup &tde; to display a device icon -on the desktop. To start or configure this feature in the &kcontrolcenter; go -to -DesktopBehavior -and select the Device Icons Tab. The device icon action -can be used to show both mounted and unmounted devices, or to only create an -icon when media is detected and automounted (only if automount is properly -configured), by not checking the unmounted boxes. - - -Automount - -With &tde; 3.5 and newer, devices can be automounted, meaning one only -has to insert the removable disk. &tde; will then open an automount prompt -asking the user What do you want to do? with the media. To -configure the list of options prompted for devices open the &kcontrolcenter; and -navigate to PeripheralsStorage -Media. Here you can add and remove programs from the -list of devices. - -The automount feature will only work if -dbus, hal and -udev are installed and the kernel is properly -configured. To find out if they are running on your system check the -Process Table in &ksysguard; for: -hald, dbus-deamon, and -udevd. &tde; does not provide any of these -components. You must check with you distribution. - - -Related Information -HOWTO: setting up D-BUS and HAL with TDE's media ioslave -edit (A community maintained HOWTO on the &tde; wiki) -The DBus page -HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer - - - - - -Mounting - -If your system does not automount, &tde; is configured to mount and -unmount devices which the current user has permission to mount. If a device -is mounted as the root partition (&ie; /), and you log in -to &tde; as a user, &tde; can not mount or unmount it without being given a -higher permission. To check a devices mount permission see the -/etc/fstab file. - -To mount and unmount devices manually in &tde; one only has to &RMB; -click the device icon in media:/ or on the desktop and select -Mount or Unmount, for -removable devices one can also unmount with Safely Remove. &tde; still requires the device to be setup in -/etc/fstab. - - - - - - -- cgit v1.2.1