Re: [newbie] Zip drive

[pete moss]

Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

> It's just that every time I want to use the Zip drive I have to go into
> terminal and type "modprobe ppa", and then mount it. I guess I would be
> happy if I could just get "modprobe ppa" to run automatically at boot
> up. I guess your right, automounting a removable media device at boot up
> could be a questionable practice. I just get tired of running "modprobe
> ppa" every time I boot up my system. Any thoughts??

sure, just put the command at the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local
this can be used like autoexec.bat in dos.  just be careful editing rc.*
files, you can make your system unbootable if you go changing things!

:P