Maureen L. Thomas wrote:
Thanks for the tips. Civil me was right. I had to mknod and then it
was recognized. I had pointed it to hdd4, but it just wouldn't work.
Had a little trouple with the modem by got that straighten out too. I
did use the dmesg dmesg.txt. That confirmed my zip as
On Sunday 06 January 2002 03:22 pm, you wrote:
Maureen L. Thomas wrote:
Thanks for the tips. Civil me was right. I had to mknod and then it
was recognized. I had pointed it to hdd4, but it just wouldn't work.
Had a little trouple with the modem by got that straighten out too. I
did
Thanks for the tips. Civil me was right. I had to mknod and then it
was recognized. I had pointed it to hdd4, but it just wouldn't work.
Had a little trouple with the modem by got that straighten out too. I
did use the dmesg dmesg.txt. That confirmed my zip as hdd. Thanks
again.
Want
Maureen L. Thomas wrote:
I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not
the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like
this:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto
user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
when I try to mount with
tester wrote:
In this case you need to create the device
mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 69
Civileme
Hi Civileme...can I butt in here? Please further my 'Nix education. grin
Why does he have to mknod here? I've seen this kind of reply before to/from
other users and I'm afraid I just don't
tester wrote:
Maureen L. Thomas wrote:
I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not
the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like
this:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto
user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
when I try to
Maureen L. Thomas wrote:
I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not
the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like
this:
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto
user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
when I try to mount with the icon
Thanks to Ron and Eric for great assistance in getting the Zip drive working.
I see that this 100 meg. disk has 12 blockgroups. When I tried to tar my
/home directory onto the Zip drive it stopped after using only one block.
Consequently there was not enough space to archive the whole directory
Michael,
there are several way's to do it, 2 of
them are:
1-compress it with 'bzip2'
2- do a 'dump'
See, execute 'man bzip2' and 'man dump'
on a term or console.
Eric
mcoady wrote:
Thanks to Ron and Eric for great assistance in getting the Zip drive working.
I see that this 100 meg. disk
