Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Walt H]

Is it possible to use a parallel port Zip drive in Puppy? For most Linux distributions I've tried, I got my Zip drive by typing 'insmod imm' at the command line, adding a line in /etc/fstab and creating the appropriate directory (/zip or /mnt/zip). Will that same procedure work in Puppy? Is the imm module included or is there an easy way to add it? Thanks.

[danleff]

It's in there...

Try this. In rxvt, type in;

modprobe imm

Then see if the zip drive is recognized by using dmesg.

You should be able to add the modprobe imm command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Then it will be loaded at next boot. Change fstab, as necessary.

[BarryK]

Puppy now has the "modinfo" command also:

# modinfo imm

...tells you interesting stuff.