OK
You can make a fancy entry to fstab like this
/dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto noauto,user,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
and then
mkfs -t (whatevertype) /dev/hdd
where (whatevertype) could be hfs (MAC) msdos, vfat, ext2, and a few others
man mkfs for details, of course
and then mount with
mount -t (whatevertype) /dev/hdd /mnt/zip
If you want to get really fancy, there are some zip icons in the icon directory
and you could setup a mount/dismount icon similar to floppy though likely it will
be for ONE file type defined in /etc/fstab. I haven't figured out quite yet why
mount calls for a specified file type under the "auto" setting.
Civileme
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> I've got an ATAPI zip drive and would like to know how to use it in Linux. I
> can mount it as an MSDOS type with no problems but am restricted by DOS's 8.3
> filename scheme. When I try to mount it as AUTO, it finds it as MSDOS. I have
> tried to mount it as EXT & EXT2 with no luck.
>
> Do I need to create a file system on the zip disk?
>
> Do I need to parition it and format it?
>
> How do you do it????? HELP, HELP....
>
> I'm using Mandrake Linux 6.0 which is derived out of Red Hat 6.0
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