In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.970901175456.20647D>, you wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: > > Milos Prudek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could someone help me with the installation of parallel version of > > > iomega ZIP under Debian Linux? I do not know where to start...
> All you have to do is to compile the module for it, and modprobe ppa when > you want to use it. You will have /dev/sda to mount the disks from. > My suggestion is that you (as mentioned above) compile the ppa driver as an module. As there probably will be some time between your access to the zipdrive you would want the kerneld to load the module for you. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt for more information about compiling and using the kerneld. Then you would like to add an entry in the /etc/fstab for your zipdrive. Something like this is nice (if you always use vfat on your zip disks anyway). /dev/sda4 /zipdrv vfat noauto,rw,user,exec,dev,suid,async,gid=23,umask=002,quiet 0 0 Then any user could mount the disks, and the user mounting it and all members of group 23 (in my case I call that group "fat") have unlimited read, write and execute access while other only get read and execute rights. When you want to mount a zipdisk you simply do mount /zipdrv and when you don't need it anymore (want ot remove it from the drive) just umount zipdrv If you have got the kerneld to work it will load the ppa module when it's needed and you dont have to do insmod/modprobe it the first time you need it, and it won't take resources when you don't need it. /frax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .