John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Ramon,
> > Thankyou for your concise and thoughtful reply. I have saved it for future
> > reference. I have tried the entries you suggested for my fstab file and
> > it just isn't working. I am including a copy of my fstab file in hopes
> > someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I am able to mount vfat
> > floppies, just can't get the ext2 working. I've tried all the
> > obvious.. Here's the fstab file, the way it came configured in Mandrake
> > 7.0:
> >
> One suggestion is to remove the "supermount" and go back to the way
> things were before that. ie:
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
> (straight from my Mandrake 6.0 system.)
> You might also want to do the same for the CDROM, as others have
> reported problems with it. Dunno why, but that "supermount" seems to
> be problematic for many. I haven't tried it yet, as I"m still using
> Mandrake 6.0. :-)
> John
This will not work on my system, but I have yet to try supermount
disable. Surely the simplest solution is for Mandrake to fix the bug
which causes supermount to not work with ext2 files on floppies in some
systems. Adding ext2 to /etc/filesystems and changing vfat to auto are
not fixes.
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