Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:04:04AM -0500, Andrew Vogel wrote:
> -> Last night, I completely WIPED my hard drives and installed (not upgraded)
> -> Linux-Mandrake 7.0. There are several benefits to doing a fresh install --
> -> first, I was able to more intellegently partition the system, but most
> -> importantly, things like DrakConf and DiskDrake now work (they didn't work
> -> under the upgrade).
> ->
> -> During the install, it asked if I wanted to install supermount, which is
> -> supposed to handle ZIP drives (and others...). I've got a parallel ZIP
> -> attached to the computer, so I installed supermount, but my ZIP is not
> -> being recognized.
> ->
> -> What to do?
>
> Did you first run "modprobe ppa"?
>
> You may want to put that into your /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
>
> # Install the ZIP drive driver module. C^2 1999 12 16
> modprobe ppa
>
> so that it runs when you reboot.
>
> Also, if you use jaZip, check the version on the CD-ROM. You may have to
> get the latest version so that it works with your more modern libraries. I
> know 22, which is what came with Mandrake 6.1, is obsolete. The latest is
> 32.
>
> --
>
> -- C^2
>
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>
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