Re: Zip disk ?


Subject: Re: Zip disk ?
From: Andre (charly22@sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 15:44:40 MDT


Worked like a charm!

Two remarks:
  1- My node was hdd with no number.
   2- modprobe usb-storage gave me a command not found, it worked without it anyway.

 One question:
   After umout /mnt/zip how do I retrieve the disk? It's not coming out!

Andre

Joss Winn a *crit :

> >To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> >From: Andre <charly22@sympatico.ca>
> >Subject: Zip disk ?
>
> >How can I mount a zip disk?
>
> >Thanks in advance!
> >Andre
>
> su <to change to root>
>
> <enter password>
>
> mkdir /mnt/zip <to make the zip directory>
>
> <plug zip drive in>
>
> dmesg <to find the /dev node>
>
> <look for the /dev node the drive has grabbed. Probably /dev/sda or
> something similar>
>
> vi /etc/fstab
>
> <to edit the file - in vi, press 'i' before inserting
> text and escape after you've finished inserting text. Press SHIFT Z, twice
> to save and quit>
>
> <enter a line that looks something like this:>
> /dev/sda /mnt/zip hfs rw,noauto,user 0 0
>
> <you need to determine the node number for the disk format: my hfs disk mounts on /sda, my dos on
> /sda4 and my ext2 on /sda1>
>
> <save and quit>
>
> <slip a disk in the drive>
>
> <if you use a USB drive, enter:>
> modprobe usb-storage <load the usb driver>
>
> exit <exit su mode>
>
> mount /mnt/zip <you'll hear the drive start up>
>
> <use disk :-)>
>
> (to unmount, type umount /mnt/zip and to eject, type eject /mnt/zip)
>
> any problems give me a shout. Likely problems will be the wrong /dev
> node or the wrong formatted disk. Remember to use HFS, not HFS+
>
> If this works for you, please tell me and I'll stick it up on some
> newbie help place. It's a question that is asked constantly.
> --
> http://www.josswinn.org



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