On Monday 30 September 2002 09:46 am, you wrote: > Hello all, > I am recently up and running with Mandrake 9.0 (very pretty!) and am > having trouble accessing my floppy, cd and Zip drives. > > In my fstab I have three lines like this: > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,- > -,iocharset=iso8559-1,codepage=850, unmask=0 0 0 > > I'm clueless as the "none" and "supermount" - what do these mean?
"Supermount" is the program/driver that automatically mounts the cdrom when it's loaded. I'm not sure what "none" refers to. Also, > does the "ro" give rights only to members of the root group? "ro" stands for "read only" And what > is the "- -" following that? AFAIK, all it's doing is telling the system to use the default for whatever that section covers. Unfortunately I don't remember precisely what it was. I assume the iso8559-1 stuff relates to > filename protocol. That's the codepage for the text for the language/s you've chosen. Should I just edit out everything before "dev" and > give it a go? I doubt that would help. "/mnt/cdrom" is the mountpoint. "supermount" is the method for accessing the cdrom. Now you've got me puzzled and worried. It shouldn't behave like that. Wesley Parish > > Thanks for any help... > Matt > (the Imp-driving Yank) -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing." Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
