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]

Slapped in the face?

Okay, booting up...it says a lot of stuff I don't understand, but I think the relevant line is:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/D: type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0111,dmask=0000,
codepage=cp850,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed)

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

What's in /media/D: then?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm guessing that's what it's calling the SD slot now. But it didn't do that before I updated the OS.

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

Linux has achieved "irritating, confusing upgrades," I guess it is ready for the desktop.