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Re: [Plug] Mounting Zip drives in RH6.0
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It is in the howto. At least the version I have. Also, if the
/dev/???4 bothers you, you can just fdisk and make a different file
system. Only preformated disks seem to use /dev/???4. I guess iomega
felt like being different. It was near the end. The entire first half
of the howto is pretty much how to set it all up. The second half
deals pretty much with using it. I pasted section 5.2 with the mount
example. Later theres a faq section that answers your "Why 4?" question.
I found some neat backgrounds today.
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J.
When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
attitude.
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Justin Bedard wrote:
>
> Ah! The ZIP-Drive mini howto was mainly talking about drives hooked to the scsi
> device, thus the sda4. So taking you advice, interpetting for an internal drive:
>
> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip
>
> Worked like a charm!! I guess the partition we always want under Linux start @ 4
> for zip disk(?).
>
> Well, that's what it seems to be.
> They should include this information in their howto. ;-)
>
> Thanks dude.
> Justin
>
> > Hey dude. Read the ZIP-Drive mini howto again.
> >
> > Mounting a partition will yeild better results than attemtping to
> > mount the raw device. Dunno why its like this, it just is. Have
> > fun.
> >
> > # From the HOWTO:
> >
> > 5.2. An existing DOS formatted disk
> >
> > If you have a ZIP disk with a DOS file structure that was originally
> > created by Iomega's tools, the partition scan should say that the disk
> > has one partition, /dev/sda4.
> > You should make a place to mount the disk, lets say /zip, and then
> > mount it as an MS-DOS filesystem:
> >
> > mkdir /zip
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip
>
>
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