> 
> > > > I've noticed a problem with the installer when it generate fstab
for
> my
> > > > previous install ( cf first install report ).
> > > >
> > > > [will@bastard rc1]$ grep floppy /mnt/rc1/etc/fstab
> > > > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
> > > > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,exec,--,iocharset=iso8859-
> 15,umask=0,sync,codepage=8
> > > >50 0 0                         ~~~
> > > >
> > > > there's -- and this has nothing to do here.
> > >
> > > It has and it works.
> >
> > maybe what are this 2 dash ? ( -- ) and why ?
> > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
> >
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,exec,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,codepage=8
> 50 0 0
> >
> > it's better , no ?
> 


No it not better. 

> it doesn't work. Did you test it? I don't remember why it's needed
though.
> juan?
> 

We need two dashes to separate supermount options from options that are
passed to the low level filesystem. Without these two dashes supermount
try to interpret e.g. iocharset as own option and fails (because is not
valid option for *supermount*).

-andrej

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