Linux-Misc Digest #640, Volume #27 Wed, 18 Apr 01 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Which distro for 2.4.x ? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: [off-topic] Vim 6.0 in Redhat 7.1, comments? (Robert Lynch)
sync'n palm & mutt with a PIM? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux hot spots ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
re: telnet/ftp ("Sudhakar R.")
Linux Installer ("Michelle Ruediger")
running "strip" on bins, what are the dangers? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: process just refuses to die!!!! (Wayne Pollock)
Re: 4 pages per sheet, double sided (Wayne Pollock)
Re: Booting Linux on a robot (Eggert Ehmke)
Re: Which distro for 2.4.x ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fat32 + ext2 partitions lost. How to recover? (Roberto Inzerillo)
Modem Problem ("Thorson MacAoidh")
Re: Am I ****? HP Photosmart C500 and Win 2000 (Rick Matthews)
Re: Warp 4 to Linux (Albert Schwartz)
Netscape 4.77 *after* Netscape 6.01 ?! (Arctic Storm)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Philip Armstrong)
Re: inittab question (Mike Mcclain)
Re: [off-topic] Vim 6.0 in Redhat 7.1, comments? (Christian Rose)
Re: sync'n palm & mutt with a PIM? (Dave Pearson)
Re: ZIP100 not having correct major or minor number (Markus Kossmann)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Which distro for 2.4.x ?
Date: 18 Apr 2001 16:00:42 GMT
Arctic Storm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ So,... RedHat has included GCC 2.96 with RedHat 7.1, instead of GCC 2.95.
[ Now, the binaries are incompatible.
[ Can you recommend a disto that has kernel 2.4.x, and produces compatible
[ binaries,...
For the sake of us less skilled in the black arts :-)
...what do you mean incompatible? What would be moticeable? Upgrading
programs? Compiling d/loaded tarballs? This might help us in our future
distro upgrade plans...
--
jazz
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [off-topic] Vim 6.0 in Redhat 7.1, comments?
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:14:38 -0700
"Charles E. Campbell" wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I put RH 7.0 on two computers: one installation went well and works
> just fine, the other caused the Lilo large-disk bug to destroy
> my master boot record. Anyone know if the new RH 7.1's Lilo has
> that bug still? I'm hesitant to try it until I know for sure.
>
> Regards,
> C Campbell
Sorry, don't know about lilo problems, but I saw the title yet am
unable to recover the previous postings. So someone might have
made the observation below.
FWIW, I installed RH 7.1, like it a lot, but Vim 6 is screwy.
Last night I tried to use "visual" edit mode, it didn't work.
Looked around a bit for a solution, got no joy, reverted to Vim
5.7-8 to get back m'visual mode.
Bob L.
P.S. 7.1 Anaconda (installer) seems to bomb a lot. Fer shure it
can't handle reiserfs, but OK, this is new for 2.4 kernels and
Linux. KDE 2 is really sweet-looking.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Ralf Arens wrote:
> >> <personal opinion>
> >> .. snipped: summary, RA has X server problems with RH 7.0, and
> >> a friend couldn't compile a Linux kernel
> >>
> >> No, never again Red Hat (and I used RH 5.0 to 6.2), they took the
> >> wrong turn with 7.0. Now I run Slackware 7.1.0, it's fast, it's
> >> stable, but I won't recommend it to anyone unless they know what
> >> they're doing.
> >>
> >> </personal opinion>
> >
> >I don't feel that way. I had no problems and enjoyed Red Hat 7 very
> >much. And Red Hat 7.1 seems to be even better; I like the new features
> >of kernel 2.4 and the firewall setup in the installer. Only sad thing is
> >that Gnome 1.4 isn't in it, but that's what Ximian is for.
> --
> Charles E Campbell, Jr, PhD _ __ __
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.mutt,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: sync'n palm & mutt with a PIM?
Date: 18 Apr 2001 16:07:53 GMT
Hi, i am trying to find a pim (mainly just
address book) that will give me #1 the ability
to sync mutt and palm (actuallly a visor)and
#2 a gui (that is hopefully similar to the
netscape address book). It would be great if
there was one out there especially one that
does not need gnome or KDE (neither of which
i run due to my laptop being small/slow). Any
help or a point in the right direction would be
greatly appricated!
-Gaiko
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux hot spots
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:17:42 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The company I work for has a new product coming out very soon for the
> Linux market that I want to spread the word about but do not know the best
> areas to reach potential users. Can you give me some advice on
> inexpensive ways to spread the word in the Linux market and where the
> Linux gurus can be found?
>
> The product is a thin client software application that is similar to
> Tarantella, Citrix, ... however much much better. On the UNIX versions it
> is 2 times faster than the newest version of Citrix and makes Tarantella
> look like dirt. We do all the collaboration/shadowing features that the
> others do as well as some they don't have. One of the biggest advantages
> is that our product supports openGL applications or the GLX extension.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
You ought to consider the sorts of publicity that people traditionally
try, for serious products:
-> Contact a Linux magazine (such as Linux Journal or Linux Magazine)
to offer a review copy;
-> Contact one of the online Linux "portals" like LinuxToday, Linux
Gazette, or such, offering a review copy to a reviewer;
-> Put together a ~1 page description, and submit it to
comp.os.linux.announce;
-> _Don't_ announce it in every newsgroup that appears _faintly_
relevant;
-> _Don't_ collect up a set of email addresses and spam people
silly...
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from how. Market-oriented, or agoric, programming additionally allows
the modular separation of why."
-- Mark Miller
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From: "Sudhakar R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re: telnet/ftp
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:12:21 -0400
both 'telnet localhost' and 'telnet localhost 21' work fine. when i try
telnet from another machine on the network i get the following..
mulga@~ [12:05pm] $ telnet matrixuc.homeip.net
Trying 129.137.205.235...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
mulga@~ [12:09pm] $
can someone plz help me get this to work.
thanx again
-sud
>u wanna try posting some error messages instead of just saying u can't do
>it? It makes us fly blindly w/o some error messages.
>
>u sure the telnet daemon is installed as well as the ftp daemon?
>try 'telnet localhost' and see if it connects
>for ftp testing try 'telnet localhost 21' and see what happens, if it
>conect then a daemon is running (this can't be used as a test for the
>telnet daemon though unless u change teh 21 to a 23 for the telnet port)
>
>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Herb Stein wrote:
>>
>>>Check to what /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny contain. They are
>>>used to control which inetd services are accessable.
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Sudhakar R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups:
>>>comp.os.linux.misc
>>>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:53 AM Subject: ftp,telnet
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'd recently installed a RH 7.0 box. But I'm unable to access it over
>>>> the network using telnet/ftp. Can someone please tell me how I can get
>>>> the services going.
>>>>
>>>> Thanx in advance
>>>> -sud
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
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From: "Michelle Ruediger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Installer
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:29:32 -0500
Is anyone familiar with a installer such as Install Shield for Linux (as
opposed to RPM etc.).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: running "strip" on bins, what are the dangers?
Date: 18 Apr 2001 16:27:27 GMT
Hi, I was recently reading the mini-howto on saving
space on space strapped systems and it talked about
using �strip� on some *bin dirs. It said it was ok
to do this in some dirs but not others. What exactly
does it do (all I know is something about taking
characters or objects our of bins) and what are (if
any) the disadvantages/dangers of stripping bin files?
Any help/enlightenment on this subject would be greatly
appreciated!
-gaiko
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From: Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: process just refuses to die!!!!
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:33:25 -0400
You're right of course ( and Lew Pitcher too.) In the old days (~1985)
when I know my way around, I could use a hex editor on /dev/kmem and
fix all that stuff! :-)
-Wayne Pollock
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> Wayne Pollock wrote:
> >
> > If you used kill -9 <pid> on the correct <pid> and did that as root,
> > and the process didn't die, then it must be a zombie.
>
> Not necessarily: it could be in STATE D, which means it is waiting for
> an IO operation to complete. If a kill -9 will not do, the job will
> probably never terminate as an interrupt was either not generated by
> the device, or lost by the software. The trouble is that, while the
> process is not consuming CPU cycles, and may even get swapped out, its
> files are open, so it is consuming file descriptors. If it locks the
> file, you will never be able to use it unless you reboot the machine.
> I wish there were a way around rebooting.
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From: Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 pages per sheet, double sided
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:36:02 -0400
I'm not sure but see if the "mpage" utility will do what you want.
-Wayne Pollock
Andrea Furin wrote:
>
> How could I print 4 pages per A4 - sheet (position: landscape) in such a way
> that the 2th page is opposite to the 1th and the 4th to the 3th?
> Something like that:
> front: 1th (left) 4th (right)
> behind: 3th (left) 2th (right)
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From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Booting Linux on a robot
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:51:24 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 02:49:41 GMT, Jasmin Letendre
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The problem is that any user name we enter (even root!) gives a "login
>invalid" without even asking for a password. And if we press
>Ctrl+Alt+Delete, it says "You don't exist. Go away!"
I had this problem once when my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files were
messed up. Try to log in single user mode and reinstall them.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which distro for 2.4.x ?
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:54:07 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan) writes:
> Arctic Storm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [ So,... RedHat has included GCC 2.96 with RedHat 7.1, instead of GCC 2.95.
> [ Now, the binaries are incompatible.
> [ Can you recommend a disto that has kernel 2.4.x, and produces compatible
> [ binaries,...
>
> For the sake of us less skilled in the black arts :-)
> ....what do you mean incompatible? What would be moticeable? Upgrading
> programs? Compiling d/loaded tarballs? This might help us in our future
> distro upgrade plans...
"Incompatible" as in "GCC 2.96 produces binaries that don't
interoperate with those produced by 2.95 or by future releases."
As in, you may find that if you try to run programs compiled using
other versions of GCC, on a system where binaries and libraries were
compiled using 2.96, that you get a lot of errors resembling:
"Not a binary executable"
or
"Can't execute"
Similarly, programs compiled using GCC 2.96 may not work elsewhere
with much the same results.
The problems are _highly_ likely to arise with C++ code, and rather
less likely to arise with just plain C.
It's pretty much a given, with C++, that attempts to attain any useful
degree of binary interoperability are pretty forlorn. This is
actually an argument in favor of free software: the most portable way
of getting C++ software deployed is to actually compile it on the
system in question to guarantee that the compiled version thinks that
the libraries are the exact ones that are indeed in place...
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"People need to quit pretending they can invent THE interface and walk
away from it, like some Deist fantasy." -- Michael Peck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Inzerillo)
Subject: fat32 + ext2 partitions lost. How to recover?
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:07:25 +0000 (UTC)
Hi Svend,
I agree with the assumption that the 2nd FAT32 is ok.
I read an article with an example of a 2Mb fat32 for a 2Gb hard-disk, then
the second fat32 should begin after the first 2Mb of the hard-disk; hence, if
my 1st fat32 partition is 5Gb (not 4Gb as you supposed; remember that the
first ext2 partition begins at offset 4996Mb as stated by gpart, and I suppose
it is right) at least the 2nd fat32 should be far away from these first
corrupted sectors. I'd like to recover it in order to access the files on this
partition, but how ?!?
I've downloaded Findpart and run it, but the logfile is incredibly complex
to interpret (at least it is to me :-( ). Now I'm at the office (without the
harddisk at hand). In two hours I'll be back at home, I'll fire again
Findpart and will post the result and write an email to you with the logfile
attached.
In the meanwhile I'm reading about "dd" and "loopback" in Linux; I read that
dd is capable of making a complete raw backup of the device (the corrupted
/dev/hda ), writing a file that could be mounted as a loopback device. I
think I'm not wrong supposing that it is possible to make some test on the
loopback device (the one created with the copy of the corrupted disk) in order to
recreate the partition tables, the MBR and the FATs. Am I right? I don't like
to write anything yet over my harddisk without some more knowledge. That's
why I will not make any "fdisk /mbr" before attemping to recover the data in
readonly mode.
Why do you think that gpart should have used a 255 heads setting instead of
16? My Quantum Fireball Plus KA has 16 Logical Heads.
Roberto
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From: "Thorson MacAoidh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Problem
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:56:40 -0500
RedHat 6.2
USRobotics 56k Faxmodem
When I setup to recieve dialin calls by using:
7:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 -D -n 2 /dev/ttyS0
in /etc/inittab everything works great, however I encounter problems when I
reboot the machine while the modem is attached and turned on. It seems that
the modem is passing some nonsense to lilo, which causes the boot to hang on
lilo. I checked the HOWTOs regarding serial comss and modem configs, but
found nothing of interest. Anyone seen this before, or have any ideas?
Thanks
Thorson MacAoidh
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From: Rick Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.photo.digital,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Am I ****? HP Photosmart C500 and Win 2000
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:17:45 -0400
Dreamspinner3 wrote:
>
> Did you see me swearing at all? Hmmm???? Yes, I know what this group is
> about. Yes, I agree with you (suprise!!) such language as he used is
> unpleasant. However, why whine about it? And you're the one who mentioned
> your children.... He has a right to post here. I just ignore and/or
> killfile people I don't like. I don't whine about it or try to impress my
> morals upon them. I guess that is where we differ.
This is not a difference. This is a similarity. Some "whine" about
language, while you "whine" about whining. You try to impress your
notion of proper discourse upon the "whiners."
Why does the "photophile" have the right to post here, while the "whiner"
does not? You could ignore the "whiners", just as you admonish them
to ignore the references to human-camera sex. The kill file option works
just as well with either.
You do not find foul language objectionable, yet you find objections
to foul language objectionable. Interesting.
--
Rick Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Albert Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Warp 4 to Linux
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:32:57 -0400
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:53:47 -0400, Dale Winters
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Howdy gang;
> I've decided to give Linux a try. Im now using os/2 Warp 4 FP 12 and
>know nothing of linux. Is/are there any versions of Linux that would be
>easier for me to learn coming from os/2 ??? TIA, Dale
****
We found Mandrake the easiest to use.
More like OS/2.
Albert, Wa3fib.
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape 4.77 *after* Netscape 6.01 ?!
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:52:38 GMT
Netscape 6.01 has been out for quite some time now, but Netscape 4.77 was
just released. Netscape 4.77 following 6.01?! What?!
Is 6.0x a descendant of 4.7x, or is 6.0x a divergent of 4.7x line?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Armstrong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist?
Date: 18 Apr 2001 16:45:46 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonadab the Unsightly One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How much does a 390 cost?
How long is a piece of string ?
:)
I'm told IBM mainframe pricing is of the "turn them upside and shake
them until all the spare money falls out" variety, but having never
been in a position to actually want or need one of the beasts, I can't
speak from personal experience!
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Mcclain)
Subject: Re: inittab question
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:01:13 GMT
Howdy,
It's not trivial, then again it's not hard either.
Here's a reading list:
Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO,
/usr/doc/console-tools-19990302/lct.txt 'The Linux Console Tools',
man pages: bash(1), readline(3),
console_codes(4), console(4), console_ioctl(4),
charsets(4), termcap(5), terminfo(5)
If it's still there, http://www.ibbnet.org/~anne/keyboard.html.
Programs probably installed on your system: see their man pages
/usr/bin/getkeycodes
/usr/bin/showkey
/usr/bin/dumpkeys
/bin/loadkeys
Quick and dirty to assign bash::kill-whole-line to Control-Delete:
Put this in an executable script and run it.
LOADKEYS=$(which loadkeys)
# ^Del --> bash:kill-whole-line
echo "control keycode 111 = F108" | $LOADKEYS
echo 'string F108 = "\033[[3~"' | $LOADKEYS
Put this in ~/.inputrc and load it with Control-x Control-r:
# ^Del
"\e[[3~": kill-whole-line
>From the CLI, 'stty -a' and 'bind -d' (for bash1) or 'bind -p' (for bash2)
will show other bindings. This applies to the CLI. I've not explored how
to do it in X, but believe xmodmap is where you need to start.
HTH & G'luck,
MiKe
-=> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to ALL <=-
GE> I noticed in inittab, control alt delete is where reboot or whatever is
GE> set. Are there other keys I can map there? I didn't find the correct
GE> information in the inittab man page. Where can I map other keys and
GE> how would i do it?
GE> Thanks
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [off-topic] Vim 6.0 in Redhat 7.1, comments?
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:02:17 +0200
"Charles E. Campbell" wrote:
> I put RH 7.0 on two computers: one installation went well and works
> just fine, the other caused the Lilo large-disk bug to destroy
> my master boot record. Anyone know if the new RH 7.1's Lilo has
> that bug still? I'm hesitant to try it until I know for sure.
I don't know about that bug, but what I know is that the lilo in Red Hat
7 is lilo-21.4.4-10 and the one in Red Hat 7.1 is lilo-21.4.4-13.
To you and everyone else reading this thread, if you have Red Hat
questions, use on-topic forums :-)
I'd recommend the redhat-list
[http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-list/] for general Red Hat
questions, or other more specific Red Hat lists
[http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/]. Or you can use the online forums
at http://www.redhat.com/support/forums .
Using off-topic forums like this one will more than likely just annoy
other people, and probably won't get you helped with your problem.
Neither will using off-topic forums for general complaining about RH or
spreading FUD (unspecific comments about gcc "brokeness") as some people
do.
Christian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Pearson)
Subject: Re: sync'n palm & mutt with a PIM?
Date: 18 Apr 2001 17:56:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi, i am trying to find a pim (mainly just address book) that will give me
> #1 the ability to sync mutt and palm (actuallly a visor)and #2 a gui (that
> is hopefully similar to the netscape address book). It would be great if
> there was one out there especially one that does not need gnome or KDE
> (neither of which i run due to my laptop being small/slow). Any help or a
> point in the right direction would be greatly appricated!
I use JPilot as the PIM that talks to my Palm.
>From the mutt side of things I use lbdb <URL:http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/>
to pull email address from the JPilot address database (I wrote a Palm
module for lbdb, it's included with lbdb).
--
Dave Pearson: | lbdb.el - LBDB interface.
http://www.davep.org/ | sawfish.el - Sawfish mode.
Emacs: | uptimes.el - Record emacs uptimes.
http://www.davep.org/emacs/ | quickurl.el - Recall lists of URLs.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZIP100 not having correct major or minor number
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 19:01:17 +0200
Bart Friederichs wrote:
>
> > 'CD-ROM' > /dev/sdc0 or /dev/sr0
> Yep, that one works fine. I can read and write to it without any
> problems.
>
> > 'Direct-Access' (means: disk drive (random access)) > /dev/sda
> [ ..SNIP .. ]
> > Are there no /dev/sd?? devs? There *should be*. If not, you can make
> > them:
> >
> > cd /dev
> > ./MAKEDEV sda
> They are there. But when I try to
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
>
> it says that the kernel doesn't recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device,
> and that maybe 'insmod driver' works.
That usually means that your kernel lacks "scsi disk" support. If there
is a module called sd.o , load it and try again mounting.
--
Markus Kossmann
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