> >type 'insmod parport; insmod ppa' and repeat the mount command, and tell
> >me if that works.
>
> This worked and I could access the drive.
Good!
> Thanks for your help. Is there some way to set it up so that parport and ppa
> load when I boot up so that I don't have to go through this every time? Also,
> sda4 does not appear in the User Mount Tool.
/dev/sda is the general device. If you want to eject, type 'eject /dev/sda'
(as stated in the mini-howto)
/dev/sda4 is generally for windows/dos zip drives. I prefer keeping all of my
stuff in linux format, though.
/dev/sda1 is used by most as the convention for the linux zip drives.
You can even use fdisk /dev/sda on your zip drive to have a partition of linux
(ext2) and a partition of vfat each.
To get to your question about the Mount Tool:
You need an entry for this in the /etc/fstab.
In the old, efficient days of Unix/Linux, you would edit the /etc/fstab (or
/etc/vfstab in Slowlaris land) by hand.
There's an ability to do this in linuxconf now, you lose no points for using the
GUI, so if you shy away from the whole aspect of editing configuration files,
you're welcome to. You'll be denying many years of hard-fought history in
unixland, but it's your choice. And that's what Linux is about anyway. Choice.
Me? I like brute-force. I edit that sucker by hand. If you choose to do so,
you can use mine as an example. My /etc/fstab has two entries, one for ext2
(linux) and one for vfat (Windows)
Here are those two entries:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/zip ext2 \
user,exec,dev,nosuid,rw,noauto 1 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/vzip vfat \
user,exec,dev,nosuid,rw,noauto 1 0
I've manually inserted a carriage return, and backslashed it so it will fit in
your reader without wrapping. That's actually two lines above.
The first line makes linux disks, when mounted, end up on /mnt/zip
Winblows disk end up on /mnt/vzip.
Further reading? 'man fstab'
> >And to answer your original question 'make command not found' you need to
> >install a bunch of development rpms, like 'make' and 'ecgs' and stuff. I
> >can give you the whole list of packages, if you're interested (I have to
> >be at home to do this).
> I'd appreciate that when you get a chance. No rush.
Okay. I've got redhat 6.1, so your results may vary.
You don't always know which packages to install, because there are bunches of
executables in each rpm. For instance, it's not intuitive to find the package
that has '/bin/login' in it. it's easy to figure out which package it belongs
to if you've got that rpm already installed (rpm -qf /bin/login),
but not so easy if you don't have the RPM in your system already.
Here's a neat trick: When you need a file, and you don't know what RPM it's in,
go to rufus.w3.org. They have a great RPM database there online. It's very
handy. If your ISP is giving you busy signals (again) and you need the answer
NOW, you can go through all of the RPMS and get a list of every file in each
RPM.
This takes a while, but the output file is very useful for future reference:
Go to the directory on the cdrom where all of the RPMs live. On Redhat cdroms
that is something like /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS (I don't recall offhand) It looks
long but the command is a find that I find to be neat.
[pietb@slacker RPMS]$ find . -name '*.rpm' -exec ls {} \; -exec rpm -qpl {} \;
>~/filelist.out
And after a few minute of CD spinning and churning, you will magically have a
file in your home directory called 'filelist.out', which contains a list of all
files , each starting with the name of the package.
So to find the make package,
look for the word 'make' with the awesome 'less' program
[pietb@slacker pietb]$ less filelist.out
hit '/' to start a search in this file.
type 'bin/make'
scroll up, until you see the package name.
Which you will eventually find './make-3.77-6.i386.rpm'
I use the same scheme to find 'gcc' which is a compiler. I know that they have
different packages from 6.0 to 6.1, so you will definitely get different
results.
./compat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm has 'gcc'
And just how do I know the difference between my Linux zip disk and my windows
zip disks (before mounting them)?
The linux ones have the little sticker that I got from LinuxMall.com
I bought a whole sticker sheet for like 2.50. Stuck one on my palm III outer
cover, and pasted the little ones on the zip disks.
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