RedHat 7.2 Q's

[Terandle]

1. How do I get the CD-ROM and Floppy shortcut icons to stay off my desktop, they respawn every restart

2. How do you make my windows partition (hdb1), on a seperate HD, read AND WRITE in my user? I can write to it in su, but not as a user...

Thx

[fateswarm]

first q, no idea, second, perhaps add for that disk in /etc/fstab the flag "umask=000".

[Icarus]

Originally posted by Terandle:
<STRONG>1. How do I get the CD-ROM and Floppy shortcut icons to stay off my desktop, they respawn every restart

2. How do you make my windows partition (hdb1), on a seperate HD, read AND WRITE in my user? I can write to it in su, but not as a user...

Thx</STRONG>

1. Sounds like they are being mounted at startup, they (gnome foot/KDE icon)/Programs/System/Disk Managment and unmount them
Or for the command line junkies ;)... umount /mnt/cdrom and umount /mnt/floppy
Then you'll need to edit your fstab...

2. /dev/hda1 /windows vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
That is how the line looks for my windows partition for read and write. The umask=000 is how that works.

Change the defaults on the cdrom and floppy drive to 'noauto' and that should take care of the mounting on boot problem...