Re: [Sheflug] newbie questions

[Matt Fairtlough <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

> The 250Mb zip should work the same as a 100Mb version. I have known parallel
> 250Mb zips work fine.

> Make sure you have support for IDE floppies enabled in the kernel. You can
> find it in the block devices section of menuconfig (or Xconfig) near ATAPI
> CD-ROM support.

> I don't know if is the same, but on 100Mb ZIP's, you have to mount partition
> 4 (eg /dev/hdc4 is mine)

> Hope something from this lot helps (I am assuming you are using an IDE zip?
> I picked up halfway through this one...)

yes, it is an ATAPI drive

thanks for all the suggestions--I'm hoping that at least one will work: I
may well try installing on a secondary IDE channel, then recompiling the
kernel, then moving the drive back to HPT and rebooting, especially as it
seems I should do this for a windows installation as well.

Matt.

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