Adding a Drive Icon to desktop [newbie] (Shel Johnson) I have an IDE internal ZipDrive.. When I boot my machine, I know Linuxsees it as hdd.. My question is: how do I add an icon on the desktop like the floppy and cdrom??.. Thanks!! *********************************************************** Here aer instructions for KDE. Should be similar for Gnome Only step 3 will differ. If you would like to do this graphically, do it this way: 1. Login as su. 1. at terminal type "kedit /etc/fstab".(you can use another editor if you want.) Add this line to to the fstab file "/dev/hdd /zip vfat defaults,noauto,user,exec,rw 0 0" (no quotes). the /zip is the name you are going to mount the device under. Just like you mount your cdrom as /cdrom, when it is actually /dev/hdc. So you could change to /z or /zip100 or whatever you want. Notice that everything after /zip in my line is the exact same as the entry for the floppy disk. I recomend this. save the file 2. In a terminal type mount /dev/hdd (make sure you have a disk in. You should hear your zip spin up. Note: you can also type mount /zip or whatever you called it to produce the same results (this is what you will more that likely do most of the time) 3. Now for the icon. From the templates folder on your desktop drag the device one onto the desktop. Right click on it and on the 1st tab, change devic.kdelink to *.kdelink (star is whatever you want, only * will appear under the icon on desktop, not .) kdelink . Next tab, set your permissions. Next tab: int he device space you should have /dev/hdd, for mount at /zip (or whatever you put in fstab), leave file system as default, set your icons and away. You sound like where I was at 1 year ago. Best help I have had so far came from this list, and "Running Linux" by O'Rielly books. Reading this book will give you the tools to let this list help you even more. It is $52 CAD, $35USD Good Luck, post back if you have trouble _______________________________________________ Stormlinux-users-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stormix.com/community/lists/listinfo/stormlinux-users-list
