On Saturday 20 April 2002 16:35, Tor Sigurdsson wrote: - Your /etc/fstab probably states that /dev/sda4 should be mounted with vfat - or some other PC filesystem. - - As you have already mounted the drive with hfsutils, why don't you just - open up a konqueror filebrowser, and type "file:/zipdrive" where you replace - "zipdrive" with the actual mount location of your zip disk ? - This doesn't work. with Konq. Location -> Open Location -> /dev/sda4 just returns a prompt for an app to open this with. I choose Konq and get an empty HTTP window (plain vanilla version). - - You could also duplicate the zip line in fstab, replacing the filesystem - column with hfs and changing the mountpoint to /mnt/maczip or something, - then you could create another zip icon on your desktop, spcifically to mount - MAC zip disks :-) - Umm never done this. Can fstab be editied with vi "vi /etc/fstab"? Can you explain this process in a little more detail? Cheers, Brian

If your trying to have KDE mount a Mac disk..I believe it needs a plugin for this to work. I would check apps.kde.com for it. :) * Brian Durant (durant@cbn.net.id) [020420 23:43]: ::On Saturday 20 April 2002 16:35, Tor Sigurdsson wrote: ::- You could also duplicate the zip line in fstab, replacing the filesystem ::- column with hfs and changing the mountpoint to /mnt/maczip or something, ::- then you could create another zip icon on your desktop, spcifically to :: mount - MAC zip disks :-) :: ::/dev/sda4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 :: ::Not sure how to read this. Is it set to auto or noauto? If its is set to auto ::and I have hfsutils installed, why should I need to change anything; it ::should just happen automagically, right? -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -GC --=====-----=====--

On Saturday 20 April 2002 16:35, Tor Sigurdsson wrote: - Your /etc/fstab probably states that /dev/sda4 should be mounted with vfat - or some other PC filesystem. - - As you have already mounted the drive with hfsutils, why don't you just - open up a konqueror filebrowser, and type "file:/zipdrive" where you replace - "zipdrive" with the actual mount location of your zip disk ? - - You could also duplicate the zip line in fstab, replacing the filesystem - column with hfs and changing the mountpoint to /mnt/maczip or something, - then you could create another zip icon on your desktop, spcifically to mount - MAC zip disks :-) The only solution that I have found that works, has proved to be an edit of the /etc/fstab and changing the properties for: /dev/sda4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 from "auto" to "hfs". This isn't very practical in the long term, as I probably will forget to reset it when I don't need hfs formated Zip disks anymore, but there it is. I realize tht this comes some time after my original posting, so I include that below. Cheers, Brian "I am trying to access an HFS formated Zip drive at /dev/sda4. I invoked "hmount /dev/sda4" from root, exited the console, and clicked on the Zip drive icon on my KDE 2.2.1 desktop. The following error popped up: "Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified." What am I doing wrong and how can I get HFS formatted Zip drives to mount automagically on my desktop the same way I can with DOS/Win formatted Zip drives? I am using SuSE 7.3 Pro."