rg.oliveira

I have a toshiba notebook without option boot from USB port. But I´d like to know if it´s possible to pass the controll to a external HD with Linux installed on it.

Maybe throught a boot manager I'd get send the control to this device...

Anyone has some idea?

Thanks.

I have Mandriva LE 2005 instaled in my machine and the sound is OK. But I have notice that when I use applications with sound like Kaffeine (DVD) and after that I try to use the game Unreal Tournament, it doens´t have any sound.

What it could be?

Ok, I´ve created the node whith the command : mknod -m 777 /dev/hdd4 b 22 68

and it works. But now I can´t mount the zip device in normal user mode, only with the root.

the error: device /dev/hdd4 doens´t exists

pardon, this is my output whith ide-floppy loaded:

major minor  #blocks  name

  3     0   19551168 hda
  3     1     522081 hda1
  3     2          1 hda2
  3     5   13823901 hda5
  3     6    5205028 hda6
  3    64   20359080 hdb
  3    65   20354323 hdb1
 22    64      98304 hdd

This is my cat/proc/partitions output:

major minor  #blocks  name

  3     0   19551168 hda
  3     1     522081 hda1
  3     2          1 hda2
  3     5   13823901 hda5
  3     6    5205028 hda6
  3    64   20359080 hdb
  3    65   20354323 hdb1

There is no hdd4.

I got the same error:

mount -t msdos /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip

The special device doens´t exists

I think that I need to create the device or something like that.

I'loaded the ide-floppy module and inserted the disk.

The result of command fdisk -l /dev/hdd was:

Disk /dev/hdd: 100 MB, 100663296 bytes

64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 96 cylinders

Units = cilindros of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hdd4 * 1 96 98288 6 FAT16

So, I tried to mount the device manually like this:

mount -tfat16 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip/

error: o tipo de sistema de arquivos fat16 não é suportado pelo kernel

mount /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip/

error: the especial device /dev/hdd4 doesn't exists

Please copypaste your /etc/fstab file here.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I´ve tried fdisk -l but it didn´t show anything about my ZiP drive (the disk was inserted).

Look at my dmesg:

hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive

hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hdd: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand }

My fstab:

/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /usr/local ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0

the device /dev/hdd4 doens´t exists

I have installed Mandrive LE 2005 and it isn´t identifying my IDE zip drive. At control painel it indicate that device is OK, but when I put some disk in the drive, I can´t access it.

Can anyone help me?

I´ve installed vmware in Mandrake 10.1 and it´s worked very well. But when I turn the computer on or just reboot it, vmware ask me to reconfigure (vmware-config) to go on. What can it be?

thanks