HD icons on desktop

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: HD icons on desktop
started by: sonica

Posted by sonica on Aug. 02 2005,08:30

hi, is there a boot option that where checked automatically mount all partitions dsl founds and place an icon on deskttop just like Knoppix?

otherwise, is there an extension to do that?

thanks

sonica

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 02 2005,15:39

Nothing builtin, but you can get some of it accomplish with /opt/bootlocal.sh. Any Icons will have to be added yourself, and they will need to be scripted if you want to have them appear only when a device is mounted.

Put something like this in /opt/bootlocal.sh:
if egrep -q mountall /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null; then
for DEVICE in /dev/{h,s}{a,b,c,d}{1,2,3,4} ; do
if grep $DEVICE /etc/fstab 2>/dev/null; then
mount $DEVICE
<whatever script for adding an icon>
fi
done
fi

Make sure opt/bootlocal.sh is in your backup

boot with "mountall"

As usual, this hasn't been tested =o)