two odd questions

[fatTrav]

Heh, I have two somewhat odd questions that I have been unable to resolve.

1. I have two harddives, each with an OS (win and RH 7.2) and I want to mount the windows harddrive in read-only to /mnt. How do I do this and are there known issues resulting from this (i.e.messing up windows)?

2. I run Gnome, the version that came with 7.2, and I can't figure out how to make a desktop shortcut. I can make folders, but no shortcut to an application.

Any help is appreciated.

[z0mbix]

In linux you can easily mount your windows partition/drive depending on what filesystem it uses with:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

for FAT/FAT32 or

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

for NTFS.

To create a gnome desktop shortcut, you can put all you symlinks(shortcuts) in the ~/.gnome-desktop directory.

[fatTrav]

Thanks sooo much.
one quick question. my win drive is the master (or hda) and my linux dirve is the slave(or hdb)
.
so, mount -tr vfat /dev/hda /mnt/windows
would mount the drive located at /dev/hda of type vfat in read-only mode in /mnt/windows on hdb. is this correct or am I confused?

[mdwatts]

hda is the entire HD.

hda# is the partition

If Windows is on the first primary partition, then it would be hda1.