Paul J Gans wrote:

> However, there are two NEW problems. One is that the
> USB stick support isn't set up correctly. One must be
> root to unmount them. That's ugly since one wants the
> user to simply be able to click on the icon, assuming one
> has been set up. But that is trivial to fix.
I tried it and it works for me.

I think they must have worked very hard on laptop/notebook power
managemet tweaks on the kde version (it now works as it should) and may
have turned a few services off by default. My install is a couple of
days old (kde live cd + all updates and mainly standard repos, ie no
multimedia stuff yet) and my user account can mount and unmount usb
memory drives and usb floppy drive without any issues. Though I think at
first I experienced the same issues as you, I don't know exactly what
fixed it for me because I tweaked here and there and installed some
extra packages and its hard to pinpoint exactly what was the "fix".
My guess is its either the security settings (Yast2 CC--->Security &
Users--->Local Security), a system service needs to be enabled or a
missing package needs to be installed. All I know is that my system
does what you desire! :-)


> The other has been stated in an earlier post. It is not
> possible to set up any community repositories from the
> live CD. There is a fix for this discussed at
>
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-L.../msg00923.html
>
> (a slightly different URL than was given earlier -- this one
> contains the confirmation of the proposed fix.) I haven't
> done the fix yet, but will report the result when I get a
> moment to install it.

Cheers

Paul J Gans wrote:

> However, there are two NEW problems. One is that the
> USB stick support isn't set up correctly. One must be
> root to unmount them. That's ugly since one wants the
> user to simply be able to click on the icon, assuming one
> has been set up. But that is trivial to fix.
I think they must have worked very hard on laptop/notebook power
management tweaks on the kde version (it now works as it should) and may
have turned a few services off by default. My install is a couple of
days old (kde live cd + all updates and mainly standard repos, ie no
multimedia stuff yet) and my user account can mount and unmount usb
memory drives and usb floppy drive without any issues. Though I think at
first I experienced the same issues as you, I don't know exactly what
fixed it for me because I tweaked here and there and installed some
extra packages and its hard to pinpoint exactly what was the "fix".
My guess is its either the security settings (Yast2 CC--->Security &
Users--->Local Security), a system service needs to be enabled or a
missing package needs to be installed. All I know is that my system
does what you desire! :-)


> The other has been stated in an earlier post. It is not
> possible to set up any community repositories from the
> live CD. There is a fix for this discussed at
>
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-L.../msg00923.html
>
> (a slightly different URL than was given earlier -- this one
> contains the confirmation of the proposed fix.) I haven't
> done the fix yet, but will report the result when I get a
> moment to install it.
I tried it and it works for me.

Cheers

Peter wrote:
>Paul J Gans wrote:

>> However, there are two NEW problems. One is that the
>> USB stick support isn't set up correctly. One must be
>> root to unmount them. That's ugly since one wants the
>> user to simply be able to click on the icon, assuming one
>> has been set up. But that is trivial to fix.
>I tried it and it works for me.

>I think they must have worked very hard on laptop/notebook power
>managemet tweaks on the kde version (it now works as it should) and may
>have turned a few services off by default. My install is a couple of
>days old (kde live cd + all updates and mainly standard repos, ie no
>multimedia stuff yet) and my user account can mount and unmount usb
>memory drives and usb floppy drive without any issues.

Yes, that's my experience with the KDE LiveCD

>Though I think at
>first I experienced the same issues as you, I don't know exactly what
>fixed it for me because I tweaked here and there and installed some
>extra packages and its hard to pinpoint exactly what was the "fix".
>My guess is its either the security settings (Yast2 CC--->Security &
>Users--->Local Security), a system service needs to be enabled or a
>missing package needs to be installed. All I know is that my system
>does what you desire! :-)

Yup.

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--- Paul J. Gans