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Hello everybody,

I am having trouble mounting a ZIP drive what file system does it use

Also mount /floppy does not work either so who do I set that up

please help

Royston

msdos, I suppose.

Quote:> Also mount /floppy does not work either so who do I set that up

use

   mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy

(see "man mount") or edit /etc/fstab suitably (see "man fstab") after which

   mount /floppy

should work.

Quote:> please help

> Royston

BTW for reading floppies and other ms-dos filesystems, the mtools package
("man mtools" or /usr/doc/mtools-...) may be handier.

Happy reading!

--

-- make config, not war.

Wow, everyone is having the problems I had last night!!!!
Here goes!

Zip discs can be dos or Linux partitions.  You can fdisk them to make
them any kind of partion you like.I use ext2 since it is MUCH faster and
I will *never* use a micro$haft product again!  You can make them VFAT,
fat 16 or fat32 for M$ compatability but you must have kernel support
installed.  You can then mount with the mnt command or through the
FileSystem Manager tool in X.

If you are using a LPT Zip Drive, you need a program or driver (?)
called ppa  Check Red Hat's Mini How To on that.

SCSI and internal IDE need nothing.   I am using SCSI for mine and it
was ssoooo simple to set up, I was amazed!!  I assume that internal IDE
will be the same way.

Quote:> Also mount /floppy does not work either so who do I set that up

Floppies should need no special treatment.  They use thier own FS
similar to CDRoms.  What kind of error do you get?  The directory you
are mounting  to must be empty and you cannot be in that directory when
you attempt mount  eg:  to mount a floppy in /mnt/floppy  first cd to
any other directory like /  Then type:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

and voila!!!  Your floppy should be mounted and Linux,
*hack*Windows*hack*, or any filesystem should be able to read anything
you put on it!!!

Good luck, may the bits be with you!!

Frodo

Not always. It depends on the disk. "man mount" will detail the
formats.

Quote:>> Also mount /floppy does not work either so who do I set that up
>use
>   mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>(see "man mount") or edit /etc/fstab suitably (see "man fstab") after which
>   mount /floppy
>should work.

And if it doesn't, do
        mkdir /floppy

Quote:>I am having trouble mounting a ZIP drive what file system does it use

Out of the box, a PC-formatted ZIP disk uses "msdos" filesystem
under linux, but you can change it easily to ext2.

Quote:>Also mount /floppy does not work either so who do I set that up

Check your /etc/fstab file for the proper entry for a floppy
disk (ie, a line like "/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos").  Make sure the
/floppy mount point actually exists.

remember to use /dev/sdx4  (the fourth partition) for mounting on most zips.

Quote:> Also mount /floppy does not work either so who do I set that up

sometimes  the floppy support is not  compiled in the kernel. try modprob floppy ....

Wolfgang