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[MacTCP]

I forgot one thing. Add the following to rc.modules as well (check to make sure it's not already commented out in that file)...
/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi

This is for SCSI emulation which might be needed by the ZIP drive.

Didn't do anything.

And I don't know how to mount a disk manually.

Hopefully the book that is coming Monday shall help with this.

 

[QuadSix50]

To mount it manually, you would have to use the mount comment as root. Since you said that your disks are HFS, then it would be in this manner:

mount -t hfs /dev/zip /media/zip

The device most likely won't be like that, but it should be close to it. It might be zip0 or something like that if anything. But considering that Slackware 12 (and I assume this would also include Slackintosh 12) now uses HAL and udev for devices, it should mount up automatically when you insert the disk, especially since you added your account into those groups I mentioned before.

 

[MacTCP]

To mount it manually, you would have to use the mount comment as root. Since you said that your disks are HFS, then it would be in this manner:

mount -t hfs /dev/zip /media/zip

The device most likely won't be like that, but it should be close to it. It might be zip0 or something like that if anything. But considering that Slackware 12 (and I assume this would also include Slackintosh 12) now uses HAL and udev for devices, it should mount up automatically when you insert the disk, especially since you added your account into those groups I mentioned before.

root@Enterprise:/home/poohbear# mount -t hfs /dev/zip /media/zip
mount: special device /dev/zip does not exist
root@Enterprise:/home/poohbear# mount -t hfs /dev/zip0/media/zip
Usage: mount -V                 : print version
      mount -h                 : print this help
      mount                    : list mounted filesystems
      mount -l                 : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
      mount -a [-t|-O] ...     : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
      mount device             : mount device at the known place
      mount directory          : mount known device here
      mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
      mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
      mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say  man 8 mount .

Huh? :?:

 

[QuadSix50]

root@Enterprise:/home/poohbear# mount -t hfs /dev/zip /media/zip
mount: special device /dev/zip does not exist
root@Enterprise:/home/poohbear# mount -t hfs /dev/zip0/media/zip
Usage: mount -V                 : print version
      mount -h                 : print this help
      mount                    : list mounted filesystems
      mount -l                 : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
      mount -a [-t|-O] ...     : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
      mount device             : mount device at the known place
      mount directory          : mount known device here
      mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
      mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
      mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say  man 8 mount .

Huh? :?:

Ok, it looks as though "/dev/zip" doesn't exist (when something goes wrong, mount always displays the help screen). Again, I'm not exactly sure how it exists in your /dev directory, so you'd have to look in there (type "ls | grep zip*"). It should be the first one listed, be it zip, zip0, or anything that shows up as the first in the sequence. Once you find it, use the mount command in the format I showed above but with the device you found.

 

[MacTCP]

ls | grep zip*

Nothing happens.

 

[alk]

Get rid of the *.

ls | grep zip

Peace,

Drew

 

[MacTCP]

Nothing happens.

 

[John8520]

it might not be seen as a zip drive, it might show up as hda/hdb/etc instead, that's happened to me before with "weird" drives.

 

[QuadSix50]

Get rid of the *.
ls | grep zip

Peace,

Drew

Thanks for the correction.

 

[Quadraman]

As soon as I get decent hard drives for my beige G3's I'm going to go Linux with them. It's all you can really do now that all G3 support from Apple is officially dead. At least Linux still has an active community, although PPC support has been split off from the mainstream effort in many cases.

 

[QuadSix50]

As soon as I get decent hard drives for my beige G3's I'm going to go Linux with them. It's all you can really do now that all G3 support from Apple is officially dead. At least Linux still has an active community, although PPC support has been split off from the mainstream effort in many cases.

This is true in the case of Ubuntu and possible Fedora with F9, but Debian still supports the PPC in the main tree. The only issues for me are Java and Flash. The former is resolved by IBM's Java solution, but I have yet to make Gnash compile properly to give me Flash support (and even then it's not the best support as of yet).

Oh, and the lack of 3D acceleration with the nVIDIA cards. :