ihave mandrake 9.2 (will upgrade soon to 10) but anyways, i can't get the Hard drive or the CD-ROM or Floppy to show up on the desktop. can anyone help me out?
try booting from the cd to install your new OS.
however to mount the cdrom, try opening a command line and typing:
mount /dev/cdrom
if that dosnt work then there is no entry in your fstab file.
so, as root type:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
thatll mount the cdrom at /mnt
from there open up whatever you use to view your file system and browse to /mnt
ok. i will give that a try.
well it didn't work. it said that it was write protected and it wouldn't change anything.
well of course it is write protected, you cant write to any ordinary cd.
after you issued the mount command did you try to browse to the location at which you mounted the cdrom?
ok. it is mounted but i don't see it on my desktop when a CD is in there. what do i do to get that set-up?
Which WM?
WM?
WM - Window Manager.
If you're using KDE with it's default window manager (which I assume is the default Mandrake config - I use SuSE myself) - then you can get the icons to show on the desktop when mounted (even when unmounted) by following this procedure. (I'm going on KDE 3.1 here....)
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Right click a blank area of the desktop, select Configure Desktop.
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The KDE Control Module will open, select "Behavior" from the left hand pane.
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In the bottom of the right hand pane, ensure that "Display devices on desktop" is checked, and then check any required devices in the list below.
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Apply the changes and you're done.
Peace
ZB
i did. i did that when i started working on this problem. i still get nothing. i checked show icons or devices what ever it is and checked CD-ROM, HDD, Floppy and i still get nothing. if it was that e-z i wouldn't be here (no afeance).
Have you tried adding a permanent device icon?
Right Click> New> Device> CDROM
still didn't work