Ville V Sinkko wrote:
>
> Two problems.
>
> 1. I can not mount the floppy drive. I have tried mount with every
> conceivable parameter. Linuxconf says this <typos mine>:
>
> Executing: /bin/mount -t auto -o
> exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 /dev/fdo
> /mnt/floppy:
> * mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device
> * return 32
>
> 2. How do I setup a ZIP drive? The only text on the subject that I have
> found is in www.linuxdoc.org and it says I need to recompile the kernel
> which is something I am never ever going to pull off. Are there any other
> ways of doing it?
Check your /etc/fstab file and see what it has for these 2 devices. Here are
the lines from my /etc/fstab file:
Floppy:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
Zip:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
Note that you will have to change "hdd4" to match your system/setup, if you
use this line for your Zip drive. If your fstab entries are the sameas mine,
then simply right-clicking on your KDE (I'm not terribly familiar with Gnome)
desktop will allow you to create a new device (I use floppy drive for both).
You can pick your drives from there.
If you change your fstab file, you can have it re-read by the system without
rebooting by doing a "mount -a"
BTW, what version of Mandrake r u using? Supermount is disabled in 8.1!
Hope this helps! ;-)
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