Mounting a Zip disk...

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:

> 
> 
> 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'm sorry to hear that.  YDL is a pretty good distro in my experince.  And 
there are some very smart people on this list.

> 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.
> 

Is it a normal preformatted hfs zip disk?, or have you reformatted it?

-n
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