Re: [newbie] LaCie USB HArd Drive on a Dell Inspiron 7000
civileme wrote: Umm it may not work at all under linux. Does it have a special windows driver? In MS windows98 it needs one and, funny enough, in W2k on the laptop while W2k on the desktop PC mounts it without the need of a special driver. The way to set it up for mounting is to a) use the linux instruction mknod to set up a device if one is not already set up. b) enter the information about the drive, mount point(s), filesystem used, mount options, and 0 0 in one or more lines of /etc/fstab Your friends are the console comands man mknod man fstab man mount I'll certainly try it. I have tried everything but the mknod command. Maybe that's what's missing. But, at this early stage of USB standards and USB support, all of your work, no matter how correctly done, may come to naught. First contact the drive folks at website or by email or phone and ask if it does work under linux. I found a letter on the linux-usb site from someone who succeeded with exactly the values that are found in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/storage/unusual-devs.h /Serafim
Re: [newbie] Zip Drive - Lost Interrupt
Ron Phelps wrote: I recently installed 7.2 and have the following problem when I boot. If I don't have a zip disk in the drive when I boot, the message hdd: lost interrupt repeatedly prints on the screen and the boot process stalls. At this point if I put a disk in the drive I still get the lost interrupt message. Under 7.0 I also got this message but the boot process continued after displaying this message just once at each bootup. I don't want to have a zip disk in the drive each time I boot. Does anyone have a solution? Is this related to automount? The message does not seem to have anything to do with the zip drive as the zip drive normally mounts on sda4 and not hdd. Please submit your /etc/fstab file. It would be of help to see the exact sequence of error messages. See what you can find inte the syslog and/or errorlog I use automount and I have a zip drive, but I never saw any message like this. /Serafim
Re: [newbie] RPM
kaab kaoutar wrote: Hi! what does RPM stands for ? RedHat Package Manager what's the difference between RPM and binary ? The difference is that a binary file is just a program while an RPM-package may contain a number of files, plus the fact that the RPM packages also contain information about which resources the package depends of. That is, which resources must already be present in order to ensure a correct behaviour. There is an alternative, the deb packages, which is the debian equivalent to RPM (but they are not interchangeable, thus you support RPM or debian packages, NOT both at the same time). There is also a utility 'alien' that allows conversion between debian, RPM and tar packages. Essentially RPM and debian may be seen as tar packages with extra information on dependencies. /Serafim
