MandrakeMove driver question

Zuggy · 03-12-2004, 09:38 PM

Hi All,

I'm going to be getting an old computer with a crapped out hard drive in about a month and I want to run MandrakeMove. It has a Conexant/Rockwell soft modem/sound card. I don't know if the sound will work on it (don't need the modem) but I have found drivers for it on the net. What my question is can I put the drivers on my 64MB USB Drive and have them work? I really want to learn linux and my family won't let me put it on the new computer when we get it (I'm getting the old one)

spec6635 · 03-12-2004, 10:25 PM

Hi, yes that should be possible, you would just have to plug in the drive (assuming the old computer will have usb ports) and mount it.
Most likely it will be seen as a scsi device so you would mount like so: "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/xxxx" those last x'es is the directory you will be mounting it to.

PS. you can mount it anywhere but I advise that you make a directory first in the /mnt/ directory

Zuggy · 03-12-2004, 10:52 PM

Thanks. My computer isn't so old that doen't have a USB port.

I Have...

AMD K-62-550
256 MB Ram
20 Gig HDD (on its deathbed)
2x2x24x cd-rw drive
nVidia geforce 2 mx400 /w 64MB PCI

spec6635 · 03-12-2004, 11:03 PM

lol ok my bad

Zuggy · 03-13-2004, 01:19 PM

Don't worry it is old. in Fact it still has an ISA slot