James Sparenberg wrote: >Civilme, > This is just for understanding not to complain. But what changed from 7.2 to 8.1 >to break supermount. On my system 7.2 and 8.0 worked fine .... 8.1 stopped mounting. > Just curious as to the change. I was using 2.4 kernel on 8.0 (and a home brew 2.4 >on my 7.2 box in the office.) what moved? > >James > >PS. I did a what provides with rpm... what package provides supermount? >
Supermount is in the kernel... Supermount worked fine with kernel 2.2 (see the problems autofs had at www.mandrakeuser.org (searchable)) but on many systems (most) would lose its place on the second CD to be placed in (or it would lock the first one in) in 8.0. It was rewritten to comply with kernel 2.4 more closely, but tthe rewrite left only root accessing floppies, so it was disabled by default in 8.1. You can enable it with # supermount -i enable that's all it takes. (BTW supermount -i disavble followed by supermount -i enable in version 8.0 would really make a mess of /etc/fstab) If you do enable it, your CDROM works passably well, but your floppy does not. Other removable media varies. LS120s seem to suffer ther floppy fate whereas zips, once deviced properly (and the plugins like USB don't automatically) seem to work as well as CDs. If you are a GUI user, it hardly makes any difference, especially in KDE, just delete the default iconsfor floppy and CD, and make your own, and clicking mounts right-clicking allows unmount/eject. But based on the 20011224 milestone iso's it looks like supermount is well on its way to being alive and healthy once again. Civileme > >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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