Hi Bish, I have installed Mandrake 9.0.
I have tried out your entries you suggested. Still no way. It is showing that /dev/hdc does not exist. When I checked with the command dmesg | less, the CDROM was listed under /dev/hdc How to reinstall supermount ? Please suggest. Regards, Vinod. On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:48 pm, USM Bish wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:29:06AM +0530, Vinod Bhaskar wrote: > > Hi Bish, > > > > I have these two lines in fstab. > > > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > none /mnt/floppy supermount > > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > ---end quoted text--- > > My guess is that you are using mandrake or one of the newer > distros which by default uses supermount for removeable media. > I have not used supermount extensively enough to comment. > > AFAIK, normally, when you mount a filesystem, you create a > direct connection between a mount point in the directory tree > and a filesystem on a block device. Supermount adds an extra > layer in between; with supermount, you explicitly mount the > pseudo-filesystem (the "superfilesystem") on the mount point, > and supermount then automatically mounts the real filesystem > (the "subfilesystem") on the block device when needed. > > Your problem could be at this supermount level (possibly, just > a corrupt or incompletely installed supermount) or a non-funct- > ional superfilesystem. Re-installing supermount may help. > > My suggestion is to just comment out these lines in fstab by > just placing # before them. Then, manually put in fresh fstab > entries by the direct method suggested by others. fstab entries > follow the following convention: > > # Device Mountpoint Type Option dump pass > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user 0 0 > > Try a command line mount before you set this. > > HTH > > Bish ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
