On Saturday 18 October 2003 08:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > >On Friday 17 October 2003 06:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > >>On Friday 17 October 2003 05:23 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >>>I am getting error message 'Could not enter /mnt/zip' (or any other > >>>drive) when I select the icon from the desktop. I can run 'mount > >>>/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip' as root and then access the drive, but was looking > >>>for the convenience of selecting the drives (CD, CDRW, Zip, etc.) as > >>>needed with desktop icons. > >>> > >>>I have 2 IDE CD drives (1 CD and 1 CDRW), a digital camera I mount > >>>occasionally, a USB Zip 250 drive, and my IDE hard disk with Mandrake. > >>>I have attached my /etc/fstab in the hopes someone might be able to help > >>>with the desktop icon issue. > >>> > >>>Thanks for any input. > >> > >>I don't see an attachment, but if you right click on an empty place on > >> your desktop you should be able to choose from a popup, create new and > >> then probably "hard disk" and then select the sdb4 device from the list > >> that drops down when you click on the arrow to the right of the blank > >> space. Then if you click on the device button it will go to icons > >> selection and that is what will appear on the desktop. Sorry if I am not > >> clear, but, HTH > > > >Nuts, meant sda4 device. sorry. > > But I think he has all his devices supermounted like this, > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > > none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount > dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > > none /mnt/zip supermount > dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > > none /mnt/zip2 supermount > dev=/dev/sdb4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 > > If so , you will not be able to right mouse click, on desktop, down to > create new (whaterver) device and set a desktop Icon up this way.The > devices don't show up in the dropdown list of the Icon properties, with > supermounted devices. > > Don't you have to set desktop icons for supermounts in either MCC or kdeCC, > cannot remember which by putting an |X| in your choice of desktop Icon, and > likewise remove an Icon in the reverse method. > > John My bad, you are right. Maybe the thing to do is back up all your mail and address book etc. and then delete the .kde folder and reboot to build a new desktop. That is a last resort if nothing else works. Anybody? Last time I tried the archives the search function was not working. So that may not be viable. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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