Mounting ZIP drive..?

[Anguish]

I'm getting better at linux..
but i took a long break of learning on my linux box when i installed win2k on my other system ( I like linux better )

Anyways, upgrading my card to a GF2 MX, in a new install, it won't find the drivers for it.. So i downloaded the RPM's from my other comp, and threw'em on a zip drive..

But the ZIP drive won't mount it
so i can't read anything in the dir..
which means i can't really use X..
which is a big prooblem http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

[Lend273]

try this :
mount /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
cd /zip
or cd /mnt/zip

make sure dev/hdd4 is in your etc/fstab

that should do it for you.

make sure that hdd4 is your zip. watch for the designations during boot.

[mattmorrow]

One thing to check is the Zip disk itself. I found that I was never able to successfully mount the Zip disk that came with the drive (it's the one that had, and said "Tools" on it). This particular disk works fine under Windows, and my other spar Zip disks work fine under both OS'es. I know it sounds weird, but I spent a couple hours with it - and never could resolve the issue.

Here's my notes on a successful mount (with all but the original disk:
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Adding a zip drive
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Installing a Zip drive:
1. Set jumpers on zip drive to correspond to primary/secondary, master/slave
2. Install drive
3. Boot Linux box and make sure hardware is recognized
4. At this point Kudzu should see it. Configure it.
5. Determine which device by watching boot or checking /var/log/messages,boot.log
6. Now you know it's hdc but hdcX????? try 0 then 1. If they don't work, the error message may actually indicate the one that's being used. Ours indicated hd4
7. Add to /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,user 0 0

If you use msdos as the filesystem type, you'll get the shortened msdos names.
8. as root: mkdir /mnt/zip;chmod 777 /mnt/zip
9. as a user, only use "mount /mnt/zip" like cdrom, it won't let users specify the device AND mount point
alias uz='umount /mnt/zip';
alias mz='mount /mnt/zip;ls -l /mnt/zip';

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