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I have a NEC Zip drive, which is supported win95/98/NT. my linux system
detect it, it might be installed as well. But I don't known how to operate
it in the terminal. What should the directry of zip drive be? Please help
me? and how can I change lilo's default boot from linux to window 98?
Thank you very much!!!!

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On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:30:08 GMT, usfisher

Quote:>I have a NEC Zip drive, which is supported win95/98/NT. my linux system
>detect it, it might be installed as well. But I don't known how to operate
>it in the terminal. What should the directry of zip drive be?

Read your manual.  The answers to this common problem are in there.
# mkdir /mnt/zip
(insert MS-DOS formatted ZIP disk into drive)
# mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
(replace "hdd" with the drive designation for IOMEGA ZIP you find in
/var/log/boot.msg)
(access files under /mnt/zip)
# umount /mnt/zip

"man fstab" and read the manual to find out how to let users other than
root do this.

Quote:>and how can I change lilo's default boot from linux to window 98?

In /etc/lilo.conf, insert the following line before the first image= line,
then re-run LILO:
default=dos
replacing "dos" with whatever you called the Lose98 partition.

Go to http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO and look around, it'll spare you a lot of
pain.

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Find out what device it is by looking in /var/log/dmesg.  Suppose it's
/dev/hdd.  Then add a line to /etc/fstab like

/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user 0 0

You'll also have to make the /mnt/zip directory:

mkdir /mnt/zip

You can then mount/unmount with

mount /mnt/zip
umount /mnt/zip

GNOME and KDE also allow you to put an icon on the desktop for this.

Dave Cook