Judy, once you do a umount on the zip drive you must place another disk in
the drive and then type in console "mount /mnt/zip" assuming that is what it
is called in your fstab file. so if you umount you have to then mount again.
This should work an unlimited number of times in any session AFAIK.
Dennis M.
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:07, you wrote:
> I reinstalled Mandrake 8, redoing my partitions, and that went well. I
> was finally able to se up tinyfirewall, which did not work on my
> previous installation, and I tested it at grc.com, sdesign.com, and
> scan.sygatetech.com. All my ports were invisible at all the sites.
> Yaaaay!
>
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> My questions have to do with removable media, such as Zip disks,
> CD-ROMs, and floppies. I have an internal ATAPI 100-meg Zip drive. It is
> automatically mounted by the supermount feature (I guess) and is
> /mnt/zip. If I put a disk in I can copy files. To remove the disk, I
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> My eternal gratitude to anyone who can help me get these drives to work
> the way I want them to work!
> --Judy Miner
