Hello Gareth After I had done what I described and rebooted my system I found that my cdrom and floppy have vanished from my desktop. How do I get them back ? And do I need to undo something that I have done ? Rowan
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 21:27, Gareth Williams wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2003 20:54, Rowan Trau'e wrote: > > Hello Chris and Chad > > Thanks for your advice. Chris I tried what you suggested and it did > > nothing as a command line - well nothing happened and I got no response > > so I am reluctant to go down that line of operation. > > In the world of Unix, programs are typically silent by default. If you got no > response then this probably means _something_ happened. No output is almost > always a good sign. The program will only speak up if something went wrong > :-) > > > > Chad, I tried what you wrote (after finally getting a xterm to work - > > maybe I was doing it wrong as it was my first time) and I got this reply > > after inputting your first line of command:- > > /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > > and so for another 10 lines or so > > This is way out of my league so I closed xterm. > > It looks like you're talking about running vi on your /etc/fstab file. vi is a > text editor. It can be particularly tricky to use if you haven't used it > before. I'd suggest you use a text editing application you're familiar with. > If you don't have a favourite text editor, now is the time to aquire one ;-) > Try 'kwrite' if you have KDE installed, it's quite similar to windows > notepad. Then just open the file /etc/fstab with your editor of choice (it's > just a text file) and make the changes originally described. > > Cheers, > Gareth > > > >
