Civilme,
Thanks... just a curiosity. To bad I use WindowMaker *grin* ...
The reason for the quetions comes with the fact that once people
started asking these questions I checked my own box. I found out that
FD0 flat doesn't work.... but if I but to Qnix or Windows (yep triple
boot) it does. Don't really care if it does or doesn't haven't used a
floppy in years. Just wondering.'
James..
Murphy's rule of 1 year olds. --- If dad has ever typed rm -Rf * in a
directory your 1 year old will find a way to back up in your history
and hit enter.........
uptime 3 hours 30 minutes... *sigh*
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:24:09 -0900
tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
> >
> >>
> >
> >
>
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