Re: How to mount ide ZIP (mac format)


John L Grantham (jgrantha@hannover.sgh-net.de)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:01:45 +0200


Greetings, Andrew Diller at dillera@gse.upenn.edu! On 13/6/99 11:46 pm,
you wrote:

>How can you mount the ide zip on a beige g3 with YDL?
>
>I think that hda is the ide hd, hdb is the zip, hdc is the cdrom.
>
>trying:
>
>> mount /dev/hdb /zip
>
>returns " /dev/hdb is not a valid block device"
>
>I can't see /dev/hda because its HFS+.
>
>I need a way to transfer over new rpms to YDL.

Try this:

mount -t hfs /dev/hdb /zip

Make sure, of course, that there is a directory /zip already available.

Hope that helps...

cya

John

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