Click OK twice and the link will be placed on the desktop. In the Execute window type usermount, then click on the generic icon and a Select Icon window will open and let you choose an icon (like a diskette, etc) to represent the mount tool. A new dialog will open and you should select the Execute tab. Rename Program.kdelnk to something like Mount.kdelnk and click OK in the new application dialog. You can create a KDE desktop link to usermount by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting new, application. dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,ro,defaults,noauto 0 0 dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,defaults,noauto 0 0 To allow users other than root to mount and unmount devices you need to edit as root the lines in /etc/fstab corresponding to floppy and CD-ROM, respectively, to look like the following: A graphical window will open and let you mount and unmount both type of devices. In X Windows, with any desktop (KDE, GNOME, AnotherLevel, etc), you can mount CD-ROMs and diskettes by simply typing usermount in a shell window. In a shell prompt (or shell window) you can mount a floppy diskette in /mnt/floppy to read DOS formatted diskettes or Linux formatted diskettes, respectively, as follows: If /etc/fstab has been modified as explained below under "Using the mount tool", then you can just type: In a shell prompt (or shell window) you can mount a CD-ROM in /mnt/cdrom as follows: You can get help about mount by typing man mount in a shell prompt This is not to say that we need to use these specific mount points. ![]() The usual mount point for diskettes is /mnt/floppy, while the usual mount point for CD-ROMs is /mnt/cdrom. What mount does is to associate the devices (floppy or CD-ROM drives) to a mount point (a directory) in the root file system. In Linux, like in UNIX, diskettes and CD-ROMs need to be mounted before they can be used. ![]() Mounting floppy and CD-ROM Mounting floppy and CD-ROM
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