Ray,
I have a ZIP in my desktop and I assume your Zip for the laptop is
also an ATAPI/IDE type.
1) Before you put in the ZIP, do
fdisk -l OR fdisk -l > partitions.txt
to get a listing something like (fudged below):
------------------------------------------------------
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 66 66 128 506047+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 129 129 732 4851630 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 130 130 =======etc 83 Linux native
/dev/hda4 604 604 620 17136 82 Linux swap
======================
After rebooting with the ZIP drive WITH disk in,
fdisk -l
will show the additional
/dev/hdb1
/dev/hdb2
/dev/hdb3
/dev/hdb4
To read long filenames, your kernel has to support the Win95 "vfat" ,
either compiled in or as a module installed by
insmod vfat
then check with
lsmod
to make sure vfat module inserted.
Below -t msdos instead of -t vfat
will work but without long filename reads.
Do
mount
to get your current status. Then
try
mount /dev/hdb4 -t vfat /mnt <<<This is correct I think.
or 3
2
mount /dev/hdc1 -t vfat /mnt
One of them works, but I'm not at my home machine now.
Again do
mount
just to see how the kernel reports it
When properly mounted you can
ls,cp,rm /mnt
Lastly add the last line below to your /ect/fstab
=================================================================
# <file system> <mount> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 noauto
/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos noauto
/dev/hdb4 /zip vfat noauto
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
where you have
mkdir /zip
or some name of your preference
Thereafter
mount /zip
will do the job for you
You probably have to have a ZIP disk in at boot, even if you don't want
access immediately (noauto)
BEFORE you take a ZIP disk out, do
umount /zip
or else (at least with my installation) be able to mount /zip again
without rebooting.
MarvS
==================================================
> If you know how to use a Iomega Zip drive that goes into the options
> bay, would you please send me e-mail that explains what I'm supposed
> to do. I am running Redhat 5.1 with kernel 2.0.32.
>
> I am able to use the parallel port version of the zip drive.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> --
>
> Ray Mines
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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