On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:42:46 -0400
"David C. Johanson"
I've been going through the SuSe Linux in 24 Hours tome by Bill Balland have a couple of questions. I've just installed SuSE 7.1 with both the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels.
Below is a copy of my fstab file with mods I've made #ed out. I've numbered the lines for ease of discussion.
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1 /dev/sdb3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 3 /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 4 # /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 5 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 6 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 7 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 8 /dev/sda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 9 /dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 2 10 # /dev/sdb4 /mnt/zip vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0 -------- In attempting to install my zip 250 IDE, I followed the instructions on pages 83 to make the directory and 84 load the kernel module support. The first two insmod (parport and parport_pc) instructions went O.K. but the third (ppa) returned a no such device error. The first two lines returned the info "using /lib/modules/2.4.0-4GB". I don't know if the failure of the third instruction has anything to do with it, I assuming it must, but nothing I try will mount the zip drive. My system has 2 SCSI hard drives, the IDE Zip 250, 2 SCSI CD-ROMS, and a SCM SwapBox (PCMCIA card cage) for data transfer. I tried sdd4, sda4, sdb4 (didn't try c) but nothing would mount the zip drive. Can someone assist me in getting it mounted? The line ( # 10 ) in fstab was copied from my Mandrake 7 install.
You say that your ZIP drive is internal IDE so the device should be /dev/hd?4 for MS-DOS formatted ZIP disks or /dev/hd? for ext2 formatted ZIP disks with the ? being a,b,c,... depending on the position of the ZIP drive in the IDE chain.
Likewise, line #4 was copied from line #3 and modified from cdrom to cdrom2 (idea once again taken from my Mandrake 7 install). I first did a mkdir /mnt/cdrom2 prior to modifying the fstab file. Trying to do a mount "/dev/cdrom2 -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom2" returns the error "special device /dev/cdrom2 does not exist. Path is root/mnt/cdrom2 and zip. Again, can anyone provide direction on how to correct my errors.
What is this device /dev/cdrom2? Is it a link to the actual device file (i.e: a link to something like /dev/sdc)?
Finally, what is being identified in line 5?
HTH, regards...
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Jean-François Bocquet