Manny Styles wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:38 PM
> Subject: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP
>
> >Please help me! I *need* to copy a whole bunch of downloaded files, rpm's
> etc to my ATAPI Zip drive, before my >system crashes completely. It would
> save me a lot of time that I don't have to download them all again. Please
> >reply before I have to do a reinstall!
> >
> >I *do not* know how to do this procedure, I need some one to walk me
> through it, please treat me as a "Linux >retard" as if you were telling
> someone who knew absolutely nothing about Linux.
> >
> >I do know some things, but for the life of me cannot figure this out. I
> have done the following, which allows me to >mount and unmount it as a vfat
> filesystem. Have also put an icon on my desktop which allows me to mount and
> >unmount like the cd and floppy.
> >Thanks,
> >John Connell
> >
> >#cd /mnt/
> ># mkdir /zip
> >
> >Also added the following line to my /etc/fstab file--
> >/dev/hdd4 /zip vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0
> >
> >
>
> Unless you made a typo, you should have "/mnt/zip" (no quotes), not just
> "/zip" in that line. I have a parallel port zip drive, not ATAPI, but I
> believe that everything else in your line is correct (mine uses /dev/sda4).
> You can check the archives of this list; I believe someone just addressed
> this same issue last week. If you only use the drive for linux, you can set
> it as "ext2fs" instead of "vfat", or "auto" if you have some zip disks
> formatted for Windows, and others for linux.
>
> Manny Styles
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Manny,
Actually this is what my fstab looks like exactly. My problem is I can mount
and unmount, but do not know how to *physically* put the file onto the actual
disk. When I try to move them they just go into the /mnt/zip *directory.* I
checked the free space on the zip disk prior to moving and *after* moving--with
*no* change to its size! Maybe I am doing something wrong, wish I could figure
it out.............
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip ext2 user,noauto,rw 00
John
