I'm a newbie and seem to be hooked on Linux.... I had exactly the same question come up last night on my newly installed system.
My question is: how come is this all so complicated? When I shove a Knoppix CD into my system it mounts almost everything (except the zip drive) automatically. I don't think it would be unreasonable to expect a newly installed system to list all data devices it finds and ask me whether I want to mount them. Or not?? BTW try to find the line "/dev/hdb4 /zip auto rw,user,noauto 0 0" which I need to mount my zip drive in the documentation. I couldn't find it in the instalation manual, or was I looking in the wrong places? But I'm learning... Christof Dr.-Ing. Christof Hurschler (Ph.D.) Labor fur Biomechanik und Experimentelle Orthopadie Orthopadische Klinik der MHH Anna-von-Borries-Str. 1-7 D-30625 Hannover +49-0511-5354-647 Voice +49-0511-5354-343 Fax +49-172-5946-909 Mobile mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: Johan Ehnberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Januar 2003 10:34 > An: Joris Huizer > Cc: debian user > Betreff: Re: CDRom and "zip" drive don't mount > > > Joris Huizer wrote: > > I don't know how to get them mounted; I included the > > /etc/fstab file maybe something is wrong > > Your fstab file should contain: > > /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > > for the cdrom drive. Make sure that: > -You dont have ide-scsi active (in lilo.conf: append=" hdc=ide-scsi") > - /cdrom is an existing directory > -There's a cdrom in the drive :=) > > > /dev/hdb4 /zip auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > for the zip drive. Make sure that: > -You dont have ide-scsi active (in lilo.conf: append=" hdd=ide-scsi") > - /zip is an existing directory > -There's a filesystem on the zip disk. > > > Note that your mount points (/cdrom, /zip) might be different. > Zip disks are usually partitioned (don't know why) so that > there is one > partition (number 4) with all space assigned. > > Any output from command would help. > > hth, > /johan > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Joris Huizer > > > > > > -- > Johan Ehnberg > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Windows? No... I don't think so." > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
