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. ----- 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. 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. Finally, what is being identified in line 5? Thanks, dave johanson
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
* David C. Johanson [Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:42:46 -0400]:
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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 --------
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.
As the ZIP drive is an ATA device, you don't need to load any other modules. The parport and ppa/imm modules are only needed for the external parallel ZIP drives. ATA drives are consistently named depending on channel and master/slave: 1st channel: master: hda slave : hdb 2nd channel: master: hdc slave : hdd and so on. So if you've connected the ZIP drive to the primary channel configured as master, you can access the drive as hda. Standard ZIP media (i.e. not repartitioned by yourself) always use the fourth partition to make them readable on Macs. So the fstab entry for such media would be: /dev/hda4 /zip vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
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.
In order to mount a device, you need a special device node in /dev. If you do a 'ls -l /dev/cdrom' you'll see that it is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. In order for your mount to succeed, you'd have to log in as root and do the following: cd /dev ln -s scd1 cdrom2
Finally, what is being identified in line 5?
/dev/pts is a pseudo file system needed to support Unix98 pseudo terminals. Pseudo terminals are needed whenever you access a system from something that isn't a real terminal, i.e. log in via telnet or ssh or you use a terminal emulation like xterm/konsole/wterm under X11. -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390
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