Re: [rox-users] Newbie questions

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:32:51PM +0000, John Pettigrew wrote:
> In a previous message, Christopher Arndt wrote:
> 
> > > Third, how do I add the mount icons to the panel? I think I saw this on
> > > the website but can't find it now.
> > 
> > 
> > Just drag the directory where you mount your (CD) drive (e.g. 
> > '/mnt/cdrom') to the panel.
> 
> Hmmm. Even more noob than I thought - how do I get that far? That is, I can
> wander around through the main Linux partition via the ROX filer, but I don't
> know how to access the floppy, CD and Windows partition from ROX. The Gnome
> desktop has a nifty little menu that mounts them for me but I don't know how
> to get this working in ROX  :-(
> 
> I assume that I need some kind of file that will mount these drives for me in
> the /mnt directory (there's nothing there at the mo)? Where should this file
> go and what should it contain? Something like "mount -t vfat [something]
> /mnt/windows"?

There should be some empty directories in /mnt (eg, '/mnt/floppy', etc).
If they're not there, they may be in the root instead (eg, '/floppy').

You need to drag these onto the panel. They should have the mount symbol
displayed on them. If not, you need to edit /etc/fstab, but your distro
should have set things up for you...


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