[ale] Several questions for a newbie

[Douglas Knudsen]

My zip100 drive had 
this problem.  Perhaps you too are having this problem.  Turns out 
/mnt/zip was 'pointing' to the wrong device.  It seems there are two 
devices the Zip drives show up under /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda4.  The 
sda1 is ext2 and sda4 is vfat or dos.  Check your /etc/fstab for this try 
something like
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vfat    users,noauto,rw    0 0
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Others may suggest a 
more preferable 'map'.  
You should probably 
run dmesg to see your kernel messages.  If your zip drive was hooked up 
with a disk in it, during the boot up there are messages pertaining to the 
device numbers and schtuff.
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: owner-ale at ale.org 
  [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of -=(TherMite)=-Sent: 
  Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:49 PMTo: ale at ale.orgSubject: 
  [ale] Several questions for a newbie
  Hey Everyone
  Â Â Â  I just bought a new computer 
  and I'm trying to configure RedHat Linux 7.0 on it
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  I have:
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  AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
  ASUS A6 DDR Motherboard
  512 Meg DDR RAM
  Sound Blaster Live! Plantinum 5.1
  Pioneer DVD ROM
  Plextor 16/10/40x CD-RW
  250 Meg IDE ZIP Drive
  40 Gig 7200 RPM IDE HD
  LeadTek GeForce3 4x AGP 64 Meg RAM
  Â 
  So far, I have linux up and running, but I ran 
  into a few questions
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  I can't get LILO to install in the MBR because I 
  have Win2k  running. I'm having to boot from a boot disk, which is ok, 
  but is there anyway besides removing Win2K, to get a dual boot loader ( I'm 
  gonna try System Commander 2000 as soon as I find an old win95 boot 
  disk)
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  The second little problem is my Sound Blaster 
  Live sounds really rough when sndconfig auto detects it. I downloaded the 
  linux drivers off creativelabs.com but haven't tried them yet... because I 
  can't get my Iomega 250 ZIP drive to mount in linux. Linux autodetected it and 
  it has an entry in /etc/fstab but I keep getting the wrong fstype when I try 
  to 'mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip'Â  I've used the -t option and tried fat, 
  vfat, msdos, umsdos. Do I need to format my ZIP disk to ext2 or what exactly 
  do I do?
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  I have the linux driver for my geforce 3 card but 
  once again I can't install the drivers until I get my ZIP drive 
  working.
  Â 
  Thanks everyone for the help and please respond 
  soon.
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  Thank You,
  Roman Dean
  thermite at mindspring.com
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