Hi,
I just installed Mandriva PowerPack 2009 how can have the computer Icon on my desktop to see the other fixed and removable disks.

Thanks

I am uncertain what you are asking for . . .

If you are looking for a "My Computer" icon similar to that found in Windows, that functionality is found in the Configure your computer" and "Configure your Desktop" applets (in the Menu system).

If you want Desktop access to the Directories on your computer (as well as the content of any removable disk drives), there is a Desktop Widget named Folder View which you can configure to display the content of the root (/) directory (giving you access to all the directories on your computer). Folder View can also be added to the panel and it will provide a menu like directory / file listing.

If you are new to Linux, you may not understand the Linux file system. There are no separate "drives" (e.g.: C:, D:, etc.). All storage devices (Hard drives, CD, DVD, and USB sticks) are mounted at locations (a directory)in the Linux File system and accessible through the file manager or normal navigation techniques in a terminal window or console screen. For example, if your windows system is located on the C: drive (a partition), you access it at Computer\C: in WIndows. In Linux if the C: drive is the first partition on the first Hard Drive connected to the computer (and that partition is mounted at /mnt/windows), you access the content at /mnt/windows. The partition is known to your Linux file system as /dev/hda1 where dev is the device directory in the Linux file system, and hda1 represents a Hard Drive (hd), first device (a) - the Primary Master IDE device, first partition (1) on the Hard Drive.

Mandriva (as well as most Linux distributions) translates IDE devices to the SCSI naming protocol, so /dev/hda1 is recognized as being the same as /dev/sda1 (but only if it is the first Hard Drive connected to the computer). If your computer's Sata ports are enumerated before the IDE ports (and for example, you have four Sata ports), the Primary Master Hard Drive (IDE) will be recognized as /dev/sde1.

You do not need to know all that if you do not want to. You only need to understand that the partitions on your computes storage devices (CD, DVD, HD and others) are mounted at locations in the Linux file system. You can learn where (if you use KDE) with the View Disk Usage utility (Kdiskfree) in the menu system at Tools > System Tools > View Disk Usage.

HTH,