On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, pete moss wrote:
> Jerry Van Brimmer 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??
>
> sure, just put the command at the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> this can be used like autoexec.bat in dos. just be careful editing rc.*
> files, you can make your system unbootable if you go changing things!
>
> :P
>
add to /etc/conf.modules,
alias scsi_hostadapter0 ppa
or,
alias block-major-8 ppa
and "mount /dev/sda4" should autoload pppa if it's needed.
