[PLUG] Make command

[Dave Jacoby]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, andrew.t.sydelko.1 wrote:

>Two things, 
>
>1) Your zip drive, if it's an ATAPI drive, should just work. look in
>   /mnt for zip, if it's there try mounting it (mount /mnt/zip)

I haven't installed Mandrake, but I've installed some other
RedHat-derived installs, and while it is easy to make them use
Zip drives out ot the box, it doesn't put them in /etc/fstab by
default. (In fact, I'm considering looking at some installation 
programs to see how and where that can be added.) So, when I reinstall
on my sacrificial box, these are the steps I go through to enable it:

1) chmod 770 /dev/hdd4		# internal ATAPI Zips are hdd4
2) chgrp zip /dev/hdd4		# make a zip group
3) edit /etc/group, adding a group "zip" and adding yourself to that 
   group. In fact, you might need to do this before the chgrp
4) mkdir /mnt/zip
5) add this line, or something quite like it, to your /etc/fstab
      /dev/hdd4    /mnt/zip  vfat   user,noauto   0 0 
   (I see no reason to stick ext2 on a zip disk, or most other
    removable media. This is especially true if you're intending to
    share disks with non-Linux machines.)

>Hope this helps,

Me, too.

>--andy.

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