On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:46:53 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Lisi wrote: >> On Friday 10 September 2010 03:45:35 John Lindsay wrote: >> >>> Still trying to find out what is available to enable the drive in >>> Debian. >>> >>> >> Have you tried turning the icon on? >> > How do you turn it on?
Did you already check this? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/09/msg00659.html > If I plug in a memory stick it automatically > recognizes it and an icon appears on the desktop. I have a 10G harddrive > that I removed from an old machine -- I made it into a portable USB > drive -- if I plug it in -- an icon automatically appears. It's only > debian that refuses to show the icon on the desktop. My 2nd machine that > I use as a test machine had debian installed -- no icon. Run Ubuntu Live > -- icon appears -- install Ubuntu Live -- icon appears. Install Linux > mint 9 -- icon appears -- install Fedora 13 -- icon appears. In every > case where the icon appears I can format it, partition it, > read/write/move things -- I do have some other distros that I will try > to see what happens but I suspect the icon will appear and the USB drive > will appear as expected. If you have the right GNOME settings and the icon still refuses to appear (I assume you let the 2 TiB disk some time until it gets mounted because is a big disk) you can just create a shortcut and put it on the desktop. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
