What type of zip drive do you have, parallel port, or internal, or something else? If it is the parallel port type, then there are options for the new and older ones in the scsi section. When you get to the iomega questions, and you don't know what to answer, just hit the question mark to get help on that choice. The kernel help is usually good. If it is an internal ide type, then you'll need to choose the ide floppy driver in the ide section. Good luck. Greg On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:43:32PM -0500, Amanda Lee wrote: > Okay, then what would I compile into the kernel and o'well guess will be > baptism by fire! ha! Maybe I had better stay up a few nights with the modem > hahahha! > > I would like to use it though guess some of you are saying ... why. > > Thanks. > > Amanda Lee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > To: "Speakup at Braille.Uwo.Ca" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 9:56 PM > Subject: Re: Aip Drive and Linux please bear with me! > > > Amanda: > > The fact that you want to use a zip drive is a mattor of support being > compiled in your kernel for that device. To mount you should specify the > filesystem, source device and mount point. > > I don't have a zip drive, but I do have an orb---somewhat similar. My orb > is a scsi device and gets /dev/sda5 as it's the only scsi drive on my > portable. At the office I have a scsi hard disk and a scsi orb, so my orb > at the office becomes /dev/sdb5. The mount point, of course, is whatever > directory you want the filesystem from that media to show up in. So, I > have /mnt/orb for that. > > Thus, if my orb is formatted with the linux ext2 filesystem, I might say: > > mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /mnt/orb > Or, if it's FAT32 (for some silly reason), at the office I would say: > > mount -t vfat /dev/sdb5 /mnt/orb > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
