I've been running RedHat for a few years now, but decided to change to Debian to test myself, :). And I've been learning a lot.
I decided to backup to my zip some code I was working on. However, after the "conversion", I couldnt mount the zip under debian, and it was killing me. Until I took a very close look at dmesg.... # dmesg | more <clip> hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: hdd: hdd4 <clip> Do you notice that the zip (hdd) drive is actually partitioned (hdd4)? so, instead of mounting # mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip -t vfat I have to # mount /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip -t vfat It took me a while to realize this, and quite a pain in the ass..... I hope this helps everyone (yes, I should be loading IDE-SCSI, but not needed yet, :) And remember, it's not also the best thing to have the installer blindly take care of things, :) Now, maybe someone can help me get Abiword to run, hehe. John Manko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
