This is slightly off the topic, but I have followed the howto for installing
a zip drive and have no been successful. The kernel is configured correctly
that was the simple part. Scsi is complied in as is SCSI Disk (scsi.o and
sd.0) BTW I am running RH 6.2 on Celeron 400 with 96 MB RAM
I mkdir /mnt/zip and then first I lsmod which yields
fat
vfat
Then I insmod ppa
I get some device is busy error? There is nothing hooked up to it except
the Zip Drive ( external parallel) then I insmod lp I check with lsmod and
it shows the lp module loaded BUT NOT THE PPA....
I try to mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip and I get another error that says
something about the kernel not understanding /dev/sda4 as a block device try
insmod....
Then I rmmod all the modules so that nothing is there, I insmod fat, then
vfat, then try ppa again but I get the busy message again...
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks Matt
>>How would one format a ZIP disk with the standard Linux file system
>>on it?
>>Adahma
>Before I answer the question, I have to ask WHY? With the mtools suite
>of programs, you can transfer files to the disk as easy as mcopy.
>No need to mount, etc. That way the disks are still MessyDOS compatible.
>
>The simple process is to run fdisk and remove the partition for MessyDOS,
>which is partition 4 and then create a Linux partition in partition #1.
>Newfs the system and you are ready to mount.
>
>But, I do suggest keeping the MessyDOS partition and use mtools to transfer
>files to and from the medium.
>
>MB
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