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AW: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount



I'm a newbie and seem to be hooked on Linux....

I had exactly the same question come up last night on my newly installed
system.

My question is: how come is this all so complicated?  When I shove a Knoppix
CD into my system it mounts almost everything (except the zip drive)
automatically.  I don't think it would be unreasonable to expect a newly
installed system to list all data devices it finds and ask me whether I want
to mount them.  Or not??

BTW try to find the line

"/dev/hdb4	/zip	auto	rw,user,noauto		0 0"

which I need to mount my zip drive in the documentation.  I couldn't find it
in the instalation manual, or was I looking in the wrong places?

But I'm learning...

Christof

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> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Johan Ehnberg [mailto:johan@ehnberg.net]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Januar 2003 10:34
> An: Joris Huizer
> Cc: debian user
> Betreff: Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount
>
>
> Joris Huizer wrote:
> > I don't know how to get them mounted; I included the
> > /etc/fstab file maybe something is wrong
>
> Your fstab file should contain:
>
> /dev/hdc	/cdrom	iso9660	ro,user,noauto		0 0
>
> for the cdrom drive. Make sure that:
> -You dont have ide-scsi active (in lilo.conf: append=" hdc=ide-scsi")
> - /cdrom is an existing directory
> -There's a cdrom in the drive :=)
>
>
> /dev/hdb4	/zip	auto	rw,user,noauto		0 0
>
> for the zip drive. Make sure that:
> -You dont have ide-scsi active (in lilo.conf: append=" hdd=ide-scsi")
> - /zip is an existing directory
> -There's a filesystem on the zip disk.
>
>
> Note that your mount points (/cdrom, /zip) might be different.
> Zip disks are usually partitioned (don't know why) so that
> there is one
> partition (number 4) with all space assigned.
>
> Any output from command would help.
>
> hth,
> /johan
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Joris Huizer
> >
>
>
>
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