Re: Newbie woes again... Part 2


Subject: Re: Newbie woes again... Part 2
From: Bryce Verdier (louiscipher@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2000 - 18:50:19 MST


I tried to do the mod to /etc/fstab... but it keeps saying that the
mount point doesn't exist when i do the mount -a command...

also... how do i go and set this up for my zip drive and cd burner...
both scsi id=5 for zip and id=6 ( i believe) for the burner?

Ed Jaeger wrote:
>
> There are two ways I do it:
> -Mount your Mac volume in Linux with write permission
> -Use MountX to mount your Linux partition when you're running MacOS
>
> The first is real easy - look at the file /etc/fstab. Here's mine:
>
> /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults
> 1 1
> /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/hda5
/mnt/macvol hfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto
> 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro
> 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622
> 0 0
>
> You should have a line like my /dev/hda5 line, but for /dev/hda4.
ALSO
> make sure you have a directory /mnt/macvol (you don't have to use this

> name, btw). If this line is missing become root, put it in, then run
> the command "mount -a", which should moount partitions in etc/fstab
that
> aren't already mounted. If this works then it will mount every time
you boot.
>
> If the above works then you can copy vmlinux (or any other file) to
your
> Mac partition!
>
> I would also recommend getting MountX. With this you can have your
> Linux partition show up (read-only by default) on your Mac desktop,
and
> you can copy files with regular Finder actions.



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