Re: Some Questions - Cont'd
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Jimmy wrote:
>
> > Now, the million dollar question is how do I see the files on the drive? And
> > if I want to use dpkg or dselect to install something what is the path to
> > the drive?
> >
> > I'm beginning to think fondly of DOS here...so help...please.
> >
>
> >From the looks of it, the zip drive is /dev/sda
>
> If the disk is a single partition, it would be /dev/sda1
Zip drives have a habit of being useful via partition 4.
the command you want would be, `mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /[mount point]`
change the [mount point] to where you wish to mount the drive, I use
/mnt/zip. Also, change the type from 'vfat' to the relevant fs type. I
imagine that to begin with, your disks would have been formatted in
windows.
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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