Re: [Sheflug] Congfigure Zip-drive?

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

How do you mean it doesn't appear in the file manager? Do you mean there
is no mount point, like /cdrom or whatever?

If so, you need to make a directory (as root) where you want it to be, eg
/zip or /mnt/zip (I have mine on /zip)

Then, edit /etc/fstab, and enter the following line:

/dev/hdc4        /zip    auto    noauto,user 0 0

assuming that the zip is hdc. Notice partition 4? I don't know why, but
Iomega thought this was a good idea :)

Anyway, go back into file manager (gmc, I presume) and the mount point
will be there. I don't use gmc (I use gnome, but uninstalled gmc as it
make desktop icons. Yuck), so I don't know if icons appear for mounting or
what, but hopefully this should help

Craig

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ruth Gunstone wrote:

> Help!
>
> I've just added an atapi internal zip-drive to my pc, and Linux successfully
> recognised its presence and went thro the 'configure' process. However, it
> doesn't appear in the file manager. I presume I need to tell Gnome and/or the
> file manager about the drive?
>
> Explanations in simple english for a simple person, please :-)
>
> TTFN!
>
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