[plug] To Paul Dean

[Paul Dean]

Hya,

On reading this, James do you have 'autofs' running? It's a daemon for
automounting drives eg floppy and cdroms. This may actually create the
icons for you.

Hope this helps...


On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Steege, Phil E wrote:

> My Redhat 7.3 KDE desktop has icons for floppy and cdrom that automount
> them.
> Regards,
> Phil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Elliott [mailto:James.Elliott at wn.com.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:05 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] To Paul Dean
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> Does your copy of Red Hat 7.3 have KDE icons for floppy disk and CDROM's?
> (or do you use Gnome?)
> 
> Regards
> 
> James Elliott
> Ravensthorpe Computers
> ABN 34 305 232 710
> Tel:   08 9838 1043
> Fax:  08 9838 1049
> Cell:  0428 39 6052
> E-mail:  James.Elliott at wn.com.au
> Australia Post:
> PO Box 228, Ravensthorpe WA 6346
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Dean" <paul at thecave.cantech.net.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] To Paul Dean
> 
> 
> > Hya James,
> >
> > No probs, I'm glad that you where successful this time in the 
> > installation. Enjoy and don't forget if you need a hand with something 
> > I'll try my best help out.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, James Elliott wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Paul
> > >
> > > I thought you might like to know that I tried to install Red Hat 7.3
> again
> > > and this time it worked fine.  I must have done something wrong the
> first
> > > time around.  The reason I didn't try again earlier was that I had 
> > > Uni
> exams
> > > coming up and didn't want any hassles, so I went back to 7.1 for a
> while.
> > >
> > > One think I notice that is different is the lack of floppy disk and
> CDROM
> > > icons on the KDE GUI.  I use KDE as my default environment and in 
> > > Red
> Hat
> > > 7.1 and 7.2 I had the Floppy disk icon and CDROM and CDROM1, and if 
> > > you wanted to use any of them you clicked on the cion and it 
> > > auto-mounted.
> > >
> > > Once again, many thanks for taking the time and trouble to burn the 
> > > CD's
> and
> > > send them to me.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > James Elliott
> > > Ravensthorpe Computers
> > > ABN 34 305 232 710
> > > Tel:   08 9838 1043
> > > Fax:  08 9838 1049
> > > Cell:  0428 39 6052
> > > E-mail:  James.Elliott at wn.com.au
> > > Australia Post:
> > > PO Box 228, Ravensthorpe WA 6346
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Paul...
> >
> > /***** Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to 
> > recognize a mistake when you make it again.
> > -- Franklin P. Jones *****/
> >
> > /*****All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
> >            -- Unknown*****/
> >
> > /* How smart are Computers? They seem to need instructions all the 
> > time...
> > -- Me */
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 

-- 
Paul...

/***** Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to 
	recognize a mistake when you make it again. 
	-- Franklin P. Jones *****/

/*****All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
            -- Unknown*****/

/* How smart are Computers? They seem to need instructions all the time... 
	-- Me */