From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-086.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.86] helo=toccata.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16XCsj-00088s-00 for ; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 21:59:53 -0500 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g132uvK02475 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:56:57 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:56:57 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: "Speakup@Braille.Uwo.Ca" Subject: Re: Aip Drive and Linux please bear with me! In-Reply-To: <003401c1ac5a$9e7cd5e0$0100a8c0@mshome.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Amanda: The fact that you want to use a zip drive is a mattor of support being compiled in your kernel for that device. To mount you should specify the filesystem, source device and mount point. I don't have a zip drive, but I do have an orb---somewhat similar. My orb is a scsi device and gets /dev/sda5 as it's the only scsi drive on my portable. At the office I have a scsi hard disk and a scsi orb, so my orb at the office becomes /dev/sdb5. The mount point, of course, is whatever directory you want the filesystem from that media to show up in. So, I have /mnt/orb for that. Thus, if my orb is formatted with the linux ext2 filesystem, I might say: mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /mnt/orb Or, if it's FAT32 (for some silly reason), at the office I would say: mount -t vfat /dev/sdb5 /mnt/orb -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org