ZIP disks


Novell network

There is one ZIP drive located in "storage" computer in room no. 130. This computer operates under Windows 95. ZIP drive has K: letter.

UNIX network

ZIP drive is attached to the lie (room no. 113).

Reading ZIP disks under LINUX

    Mounting ZIP disk
  1. Put ZIP disk to the drive.
  2. Write command: mount /zip.
  3. Now in the directory /zip are located files from the ZIP disk. You can read/write files from the ZIP disk.
    Unmounting ZIP disk
  1. Change directory outside the directory /zip.
  2. Write command: umount /zip.
  3. Eject ZIP disk.
Those procedures works only with ZIP disks formated with MS-DOS file system. If you want read files from ZIP disks written under another file system, please contact Daniel Vecerka.


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