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gotta wierd problem with m zip drive

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Calum:
my linux side is all to fuck at the moment, as i have a SiS630 chipset, and an old 2.2 kernel, and i have just reinstalled (i know there was really no need, but it's done now), and besically it's a lot of effort for me to try and get X working again. I am learning stuff, but not succeeding.
So, i won't be automounting anything for a while...
I have a funny distro at the moment anyway. it doesn't include pico in a default install!
also red hat 7 doesn't include amd in a normall install...
And i now have a crummy old version of rpm that doesn't work with half the rpms i want to install, including lynx 4.4...

asdf:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
my linux side is all to fuck at the moment, as i have a SiS630 chipset, and an old 2.2 kernel, and i have just reinstalled (i know there was really no need, but it's done now), and besically it's a lot of effort for me to try and get X working again. I am learning stuff, but not succeeding.
So, i won't be automounting anything for a while...
I have a funny distro at the moment anyway. it doesn't include pico in a default install!
also red hat 7 doesn't include amd in a normall install...
And i now have a crummy old version of rpm that doesn't work with half the rpms i want to install, including lynx 4.4...
--- End quote ---


Sounds like RPM woes to me. Why don't you give Debian a shot? I love Debian. If you don't have something, just use apt-get to download and install it automatically - it even automatically downloads and installs dependencies as well!

And yes, I'm quite aware that this post was well off-topic  

Calum:
0.1!!!
i wish i had that installed though, that would be cool just for history's sake.

I'm supposed to be getting red hat 7.2 from two different people, but so far nothing.
i have turbolinux 6.1, red hat 7 (both are very idiosyncratic releases of otherwise stable software)
and also Trinux (a security geared distro on 3 floppies), Phatlinux (an old linloader type OS that sits on yr windows side, but doesn't work in WinME or later, so useless) and PicoBSD (a one floppy distro that i haven't tried yet. It's just for networking though.

Anyway as you can see, i am stuck in this gum tree till i get red hat 7.2 when i will try to be bothered to fix the Xserver/SiS630 problem again..

voidmain:
If you use KDE and want an ICON on your desktop that will allow you to mount/unmount the zip disk just like a floppy or CD you should be able to do it in the same way you would do a floppy or CD.

First make sure you have an entry in your /etc/fstab for the zip drive. It may look something like this:


--- Code: ---
--- End code ---

That assumes your zip drive device is "/dev/zip" and you have a directory "/mnt/zip" where you want the zip drive to mount. Assuming you can manually mount/umount the zip drive with no trouble just create a filesystem ICON on your desktop by Right-Clicking on the desktop, select "Create New"->"Floppy Device" (or "File System Device"). Type in "Zip Drive" on the General tab, then click on the "Device" tab and put in "/dev/zip" (again assuming your zip drive device is "/dev/zip"), then press OK.

The "Right-Click" menu on that ICON should have a "mount" option if the disk is not mounted. It should have an "unmount" option if it is mounted. If you Left-Click on the ICON it should mount it and open up Konqueror file manager in /mnt/zip.

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