Mounting a Zip disk...

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My one-month experience with Yellow Dog Linux has been awful.  I am sad to 
report, that in all my years of computing (started in 1972 with punch cards and 
mainframes), I have never had as awful of a computing experience as I have with 
YDL.  

I purchased YDL, paid for support, and have tried to do everything their support 
gurus told me to do.  I have yet to be able to successfully do something as 
simple as mount the floppy drive, or use a Zip disk.   Can anyone help me with 
the Zip?

I had a Mac OS Standard format Zip disk in a zip drive during installation, and a 
folder entitled    /mnt/zip100.0    was made during installation.

My “fstab” file reads as follows:

/dev/sdb7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /proc proc 
defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults  0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 
0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5, mode=620 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 
noauto, owner, kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/sdc4 /mnt/zip100.0 auto noauto, owner, kudzu 0 0 

When I try to mount the Zip disk, using the instructions given to me by YDL 
technical support (  mount /mnt/zip100.0/    or   mount -t hfs /dev/sdc4 /mnt/
zip100.0/   ) , or try to mount it on the KDE desktop, the Zip whirrs for a 
second or two, and I always get the same error message:

mount: /dev/sdc4 is not a valid block device

Any clues on what to do?  Nothing I get from YDL tech support will do the trick.


Thanks,

Jay


The computer is a Power Mac 7200 with 134 megs of ram.  The YDL is installed on 
an external 3 gig SCSI drive.  The machine boots and runs KDE, etc., slowly, but 
OK.  




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