On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 11:33 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > On Sunday 15 February 2004 15:33, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > I had to move my IDe devices (2 HDs, 2 burners and a DVD-ROM), and > > > consequently Mandrake detected that and asked me to do a simple > > > actualization of the configuration. But because I have very short > > > time to fiddle with my computers (5), I keep being a newbie in > > > spite of my wishes, and I screwed up. > > > > > > The thing is, at certain point I was asked for mounting points of > > > the devices, and I made the mistake to strike "erase them all". > > > > > > Is there an easy way to create them again and have a link at the > > > dektop? I was thinkong in re-installing (over the old > > > installation), but I invested some pain to configure my wireless > > > internet access with the guidance of Derek, and I am fearful to > > > screw it. > > > > > > What do you advise me to do? > > > > > > Teilhard. > > > > Have you tried Mandrake Control Center > Mount Points ? It should > > detect the partitions on the hdds, but you will have to try to > > remember which partition held what. There are also wizards for > > getting the cdroms and dvd drive back, in the same section. > > > > Anne > > Thanks so much, Anne. I think I am going to get me some icons for my drives > in the KDE root desktop. As for now, I am relieved they are there on the > user's desktop. > > Teilhard Knight > The Extraterrestrial
The reason your root desktop has no links is to discourage you from using it. As I am sure you aware logging in as root is "a bad thing" Not only does it compromise your computers security, but it means a slip of the mouse could cause serious damage to your system. Any time you want to do something as root you can do it from within a user desktop. Just open a terminal and enter 'su' to become root user. Any application started within that root terminal will also run as root. So for example type 'konqueror &' in a root terminal to get a root instance of konqueror. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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