> "Deryk" == Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Deryk> The reason it's partition 4 is apparently to do with Mac
Deryk> compatibility.
IIRC, it's Windows compatibility. When Windows starts up, it scans all
devices and assigns drive letters. (WinNT and Win9x have a slightly
different alg
Thus spake John Manko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...
> well, i wonder. I have only 2 IDE devices, so why are they mounting as
> hdc and hdd instead of hda and hdb?
> That does seem strange.
Are they. perchance, attached to the *second* connector on your IDE
system?
MNost EIDE adapters (and MBs) ha
Deryk Barker wrote:
>Thus spake John Manko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
>
>>I've been running RedHat for a few years now, but decided to change to
>>Debian
>>to test myself, :). And I've been learning a lot.
>>
>>I decided to backup to my zip some code I was working on.
>>
>>However, after the "c
Thus spake John Manko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I've been running RedHat for a few years now, but decided to change to
> Debian
> to test myself, :). And I've been learning a lot.
>
> I decided to backup to my zip some code I was working on.
>
> However, after the "conversion", I couldnt mount t
If you want, you can link the device:
ln -s /dev/hdd4 /dev/zip
and then mount zip:
mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip -t vfat
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>
>
>>Now, maybe someone can help me get Abiword to run, hehe.
>>
>>
No, it did not work.
I'm working on it though.
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John Manko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/09/2002 (10:35) :
I also switched to ide-scsi for my internal 250 ZIP and speed increased
a lot :-) At home I have a parallell port ZIP so there I didn't get
these problems.
> Now, maybe someone can help me get Abiword to run, hehe.
The debian package
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:11:37AM -0500, John Manko wrote:
> I've been running RedHat for a few years now, but decided to change to
> Debian
> to test myself, :). And I've been learning a lot.
[snip]
> Do you notice that the zip (hdd) drive is actually partitioned (hdd4)?
> so, instead of mou
I've been running RedHat for a few years now, but decided to change to
Debian
to test myself, :). And I've been learning a lot.
I decided to backup to my zip some code I was working on.
However, after the "conversion", I couldnt mount the zip under debian,
and it was killing me.
Until I took
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