EEE update stuff

[dvandom]

This morning, I installed a bunch of updates to my EEE (something I thought I'd been doing all along, but I guess all I'd been doing was downloading packages without installing them). Running into a few changes...including the absence of GMail from the menus, and the fact that my SD card is now apparently read as the D: drive. Trying to go to the card itself yields a blank directory.

Edit: Checking the EEEuser.com forums shows that the GMail issue came up back in May. I tried a few of the suggested fixes (short of going all F9 on my machine) but they didn't work. Ehn. Just bookmarked GMail in Firefox. And I managed to delete the false entry for the SD card in file manager, the D: drive thing is no better or worse, just different.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

"Actually mounted"? I just stick it in the slot like always...how the EEE is seeing it seems to have changed.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought you meant it wasn't picking it up when inserted at all. I'm not a linux guru by any stretch, but in some systems (and there's about a bazillion different ones) you have to 'mount' and 'unmount' the hardware manually, basically telling the computer to read it or to stop reading it so you can eject in a safer way. Usually the way to do it is to stick in the SD card, right click the drive, and hit 'mount' or something similar, and the same to unmount. I have to do this on Puppy linux. Ubuntu mounts automatically, but you have to unmount manually, etc.