Chapter 6 Working with Devices
This chapter focuses on three main issues: understanding how devices are attached to a host, printing, and creating a boot floppy. Compared with a number of other operating systems, Linux is far more straightforward and configurable in terms of setup than some.
Attaching Devices
When external devices are attached to a host running Novell Linux Desktop, the system will often recognize that device and automatically start the configuration for it, provided that the device is plug-and-play compatible. For example, Figure 6.1 shows the dialog box that appears when a removable USB drive is suddenly attached to the system.
Figure 6.1. The USB drive is found.
After choosing Yes, in this case, ...
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