What about post-installfest support?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:42:34PM -0400, Steve wrote:
> I would suggest also commands and functions for accessing hardware. As a
> relative newbie (how many years can I say that? LOL), hardware has been
> my main dilemma. Here's a few suggestions, from my own experiences:
> 
> 1) How to mount different partitions (with necessary permissions). Both
> manually and automatically at boot (fstab).
> 
> 2) How to access DVD-RW's to burn DVD's.

dvd+rw-tools: growisofs

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd (mkisofs options like -J -R) dirwithfiles
growisofs -M /dev/dvd (mkisofs options like -J -R) dirwithfiles (append
to previous burn)
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso (burn from image).

> 3) Mounting flash card readers (CF, SD, etc).

hotplug agent scripts maybe?

> 4) Synchronizing a Palm to Evolution (just figured that one out myself -
> thanks to info on the net).

And hope your palm model is one of the ones currently supported.  PalmOS
4 and lower are almost always supported, but 5 is only starting to work
fully in pilotlink 0.12 (which isn't released yet).

> If nothing more, at least a list of URL's to specific answers (providing
> they at least have their internet connection working!).

Somewhat distribution specific too.  Maybe a list of good locations for
getting help for each distribution is good to have.

Lennart Sorensen
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