Fdd disapeared from desktop

[F. Eli]

Yes that's the solution! It works good, by right-clicking on the 
desktop/drives/Fdd the Fdd-icon appear and disappear but only when there's a 
diskette in the Fdd. The same with Cd-rom. What a great OS.
It's so easy..
Many thanks.


>From: "Nix, Robert P." <Nix.Robert at mayo.edu>
>To: "'fedolis at hotmail.com'" <fedolis at hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: Fdd disapeared from desktop
>Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:11:59 -0600
>
>(assuming Gnome):
>
>Did you try right-clicking on the desktop, clicking on Disks, and selecting 
>Floppy from the list? I don't get a reaction to the drive until I do this. 
>(Most hardware doesn't have a method of seeing a floppy inserted; the 
>hardware just doesn't realize it's been put in there...)
>
>Doing this puts the icon on the desktop and allows you to work with the 
>disk. When done, right-click on the floppy icon and eject it, then actually 
>physically eject the disk from the drive.
>
>The CDROM drive should have the same issues: The icon should go away when 
>you eject the disc.
>
>(I had to go through five or six diskettes to find one that actually had 
>something on it, just to be sure this worked.... :-)
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	F. Eli [SMTP:fedolis at hotmail.com]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:01 PM
> > To:	fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject:	Fdd disapeared from desktop
> >
> > Hello all,  I am a newbie on Linux and finally got Fedora Core 1 and all
> > updates with up2date installed.
> > After a short while all of the sudden my Fdd-icon (shortcut) on the 
>desktup
> > dissapeared.
> > Now I can not reach my Fdd anymore. Any suggestions. No problem with the
> > Cd-rom icon's because the appear automatically on the desktop when I 
>insert
> > a Cd-rom in the Cd-drive.
> > My system (Mob P4S8X Asus P4 2,53Ghz 512Mb Ram) does not react on 
>inserting
> > a 3,5" in de Fdd.
> > What is the solution? Thanks in advance
> >
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