[plug] newbie device question

[Michael Hunt]

Ok Greg. So I am going to be the one who will be buying you a beer at the
next Plug meeting huh ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Greg Mildenhall
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 11:39 PM
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] newbie device question
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, zed wrote:
> > ive installed and been running red hat 5.2 on a 3 gig ide hard drive.
> > i have my cd reader and floppy drive ok.
> You mean you can mount them manually, right?
>
> > at the boot up sequence it mentions my scsi cd writer and my ide zip
> > drive
> It mentions detecting them, I assume, not mounting them?
>
> > in my etc/mtab and etc/fstab files  it only mentions normal hard drive
> > partitions etc.. how do go about setting these up...
> Edit fstab to include the other filesystems you want mounted.
> "man fstab" if need be.
>
> > do i have to recompile the kernel?
> > even though they are listed at boot up?
> Nope, that means the kernel has found them fine and you just need to tell
> init to mount them at boot time.
>
> Well, Michael Hunt did tell me to:
> "Please go back [to my "world where you have a clouded judgement that has
> all been brought about by looking at a MS background for to long"] and let
> us get some real work helping people done."
> So I hope this counts as "real work helping people".
>
> -Greg Mildenhall
>
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