On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> It's just that every time I want to use the Zip drive I have to go into
> terminal and type "modprobe ppa", and then mount it. I guess I would be
> happy if I could just get "modprobe ppa" to run automatically at boot
> up. I guess your right, automounting a removable media device at boot up
> could be a questionable practice. I just get tired of running "modprobe
> ppa" every time I boot up my system. Any thoughts??
>
Suggestion:
make a BASH script to run "modprobe ppa" and then mount the
ZIP drive. Then, just call that script when you're wanting
to talk to the ZIP drive.
For example, I haven't bothered to change the default color
depth in my XF86Config file, I just created an alias in my
.bashrc for "sx" which calls "startx -- -bpp 16" and I'm
happy. 'Course that wouldn't work if I booted to a GUI
desktop, but you could put it in your /etc/bashrc or
something similar. Alternatively, you could edit your
/etc/rc.d/rc.local to add the "modprobe ppa" to your boot
sequence.
John
