8.1 uses devfs by default. add devfs=nomount (IIRC) to lilo.conf. Reboot, then you will have the mount points. I had same problem with scsi mountpoints, this works.
Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -----Original Message----- From: Tarragon Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)? On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:32, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > Hello > > My parallel zip worked just fine with LM 8.0. Unfortunatley I had to > upgrade my system to LM 8.1 (I want o to run multiple Xs). I said > unfortunately because LM 8.1 has lots of funny stuff (for instance, ps2 > mouse -gpm - is a nightmare!). > > I tried to issue the command moutn -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 but an error > message came out "no such device". LM 8.1 defined /dev/sda4 on fstab but > I've checked the dev dir and I couldn't find sda4 (though /dev/sda is > pointing the right place - cdrecord -scanbus confirms that my system has a > zip on 0,6,0). > > How can I create /dev/sda4? Or how can I mount /dev/sda4? > > Many thanks > > Ed The 4 in the sda4 is supposed to refer to a partition number on the drive. I suspect that Zip drives don't have that many partitions. Does "mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip2" work? Do you have any other SCSI drives? t -- PGP key : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key
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