Have you tried making a new icon/link. I seem to recall reading that the kde/mandrake install made link doesnt work, and you need to make a new.
Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -----Original Message----- From: Richard Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop On Monday, 22 July 2002 03:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Even though you created the mount point, did you mount it? > In KDE there should be a icon on the desktop for the zip. > > mount /mnt/zip > > I think that is what it is Thanks, yes, I tried it. I get a dialog: X Error Could not mount device. the reported error was: mount: special device /dev/sda4 does not exist. Apparently something isn't right in the line in fstab, but I've not found a better example. regards, Richard. > > Hello, > > > > Installed mdk81 on Dell Latitude, PII-D300XT, 128MB. > > At install, the floppy was connected, not the Zip drive. Hence, > > problems to access Zip drive. > > > > Have created /mnt/zip and added the following line to fstab: > > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto ... > > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > > > but it still isn't accesible. What should I add to wake up the > > Zip? > > > > Have found info about installing but nothing has worked so far. > > > > > > I have tried in the past to reinstall to correct minor > > annoyances, but ended up with LiLo at the end unable to write > > to MBR resulting in, for me, wiping out everything and > > starting over. There must be a better way. > > > > Thanks, > > Richard. > > -- > > Servicios GO-TRO,ca, v/f:0265-641-0003, 0414-675-8257 -- Servicios GO-TRO,ca, v/f:0265-641-0003, 0414-675-8257
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