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Re: no luck mounting Internal Zip drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Beck)
Sun Nov 8 18:05:44 1998
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:50:08 -0800 (PST)
From: John Beck <swampgod@rocketmail.com>
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I know that the zip disk is msdos, because I
downloaded some stuff (using win98) at work on it. I
have tried hdc and hdc4 and all numbers in between. I
can succesfully mount my fat 32 harddrives no problem
at all. SO i am a bit perplexed!?!
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---"Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 07 Nov 1998, John Beck sniveled:
> >If I do a on a msdos formatted iomega zip disk
> >mount /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
> >it appears to mount it, but then when I cd in to
> >/mnt/zip all I get is lost+found
> >mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
> >gives an error about trying to mount an extended
> >partition instead of a logical drive
>
>
> Well, mount /dev/hdc doesn't get it to a partition
(i.e. /dev/hdc4 if
> it's been formatted by m$-do$ or 'Doze). Getting
lost+found says it's
> an ext2 partition. Something doesn't jibe.
>
> If it's ext2, you'll get an error. If you're trying
to mount /dev/hdc
> you'll get an error without giving it a partition
since /dev/hdc is a
> block device and not the actual partition.
>
> Try mount /dev/hdc4 and see what happens (if you
have it in fstab). Or
> try mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip. If you still
get an error, you
> may have an ext2 parition instead.
>
> Then try mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc<1-4> /mnt/zip. If
no error (after
> getting the partition number right [1-4]) then it's
ext2 not vfat.
>
> --
> I distinctly remember forgetting that.
>
>
>
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