Amanda: For the latest authoratative answers, go to /usr/src/linux/Documentation and do a: grep -ir "zip drive" * On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, 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 > -- 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
