Yes I am looking at there directions and they have it as ln /dev/sda4 /dev/zip without the extra space is this where I went wrong.... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 11:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Zip drive/System Crash ln /dev/sda4 /dev /zip The space between /dev and /zip is your typo right? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Doug Hussey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 24/02/2000 16:38:51 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] Zip drive/System Crash Hi I am new to linux. I have been running mandrake 7.0 for the last couple of weeks and the system has been running great. I decided to try and install my ext iomega (100 meg) zip drive. This is what I did, I logged in as root. I followed the instructions mandrake has on its web page. modprobe ppa mkdir -p /mnt/zip ln /dev/sda4 /dev /zip echo '/dev/zip /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user 0 0' \ >>/etc/fstab Now after doing all of this I set up a desktop icon however in the new file device name I just called it ZipDrive without any extension like .kdelnk I filled in the rest of the boxs under device /dev/zip mount point /mnt/zip filesystem vfat after doing this I put a disk in the zip drive clicked on the desk top and everything worked just fine However the big problem I have is now when I try and reboot the system I get an error message and the system will not boot. I get this: checking root filesystem Fsck.ext2(null): The superblock could not read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesytem(and not swap or ufs or something else) the superblock is corrupt Is a directory while trying to open / failed The system then allows me to log in as root to attempt to fix this problem Can someone help me with this problem or explain what I have done wrong. Thanks once again I am very new to linux. Doug