On Monday 12 August 2002 04:45, Mike McCallister wrote:
Folks,
I have been lurking here almost from the beginning of the list. You are a great group. I realize this question is only peripherally related to KDE, but I hope you can help anyway.
How can I get my system to recognize my external Iomega Zip drive? I have read the SuSE Help topics on mounting file systems, "using Zip floppies" and the "Iomega Zip Drive" and this has not been very helpful. I have added the following lines to my fstab file:
/dev/sdb /zip ext2 rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdb /zip msdos rw,user,noauto 0 0
but when I try to "mount zip" from Konsole, it complains that it can't find zip in fstab or mtab. When I type "mount /zip", it says /dev/sdb is "not a valid block device."
Any help much appreciated!
First, /dev/sdb is the device, but the mount command has to be given a filesystem which is on the device (basically, a partition.) Try using /dev/sdb1 Second, you'll likely encounter problems with two fstab entries for the same device/mountpoint. Better would be: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/zip auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 which will get mount to find out the filesystem type for itself (if it can). -- Dylan dylan@dylan.me.uk HTML mail will be rejected