Jerry/Gary....'supermount disable' is a command that will
change your fstab entries to normal ones and 'supermount
enable' will change them back to supermount entries. Check
'man supermount' for this info (reinventing the wheel is
usually harder than reading docs). :-)
Alan
Jerry Mulvaney wrote:
>
> Yep, I just #'ed supermount out & set it up like a plain fstab. I didn't
> mess w/ mtab. Luck! Weird, my toshiba tecra 8000 didn't have any probs w/
> or w/o floppy connected. Compaq hw is pretty anal though.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!
>
> > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:59:24AM -0400 or thereabouts, Fox wrote:
> >
> > > Supermount does that on my Compaq Armada M700 if I don't have the floppy
> > > connected, unless I umount /mnt/floppy before I shut down. Alternately,
> > > disable supermount (/etc/fstab) which was my solution.
> > > Jerry
> >
> > Jerry,
> > How were you able to accomplish this? Did you just delete the term
> > "supermount" from fstab as in:
> >
> > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> >
> > and set it up as a normal fstab? What about the /etc/mtab file?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gary
> >
