On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:41:24 +1300
Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 20:58, Nick Rout wrote:
> > errr this isn't windows is it??
> 
> nope. Mandrake. I have on occasion, when fixing driver problems on
> windows machines, wished they could sort out drivers as easily as
> mandrake.
> 

my comment was about the idea of having to reboot - it shouldn't be
necessary (unless you are needing to load a new kernel)


> 
> 
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:39:04 +1300
> > Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Whack a memory card into it and then reboot, then it should be
> > > picked up on boot. From then on you should be sweet.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Jason
> > > 
> > > Paul William wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Didnt mandrake make you through the steps of setting up on
> > > >bootup?
> > > >
> > > >On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 22:34, Dave wrote:
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > >>Hi List
> > > >>
> > > >>I have a generic flash card reader I am trying to install on
> > > >Mandrake 9.1, >
> > > >>I have had little success so far with the HOWTOS & by using
> > > >diskdrake etc>
> > > >>I understand that I should be able to get this to appear a a
> > > >mounted harddrive >and there should be an entry in fstab/mtab??
> > > >>
> > > >>I am a bit lost however so a bit of help on this would be
> > > >appreciated>
> > > >>Fstab looks like this:
> > > >>
> > > >>/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> > > >>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > > >>/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> > > >>none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
> > > >>dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0
> > > >0>none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount 
> > > >>dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
> > > >>none /mnt/floppy supermount 
> > > >>dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0
> > > >0>/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0
> > > >0>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > > >>/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > > >>
> > > >>and "mtab":
> > > >>
> > > >>/dev/hdb1 / ext3 rw 0 0
> > > >>none /proc proc rw 0 0
> > > >>none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
> > > >>none /dev devfs rw 0 0
> > > >>none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
> > > >>/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 rw 0 0
> > > >>none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
> > > >>ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0
> > > >0>none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount 
> > > >>ro,dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
> > > >>none /mnt/floppy supermount 
> > > >>rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=8
> > > >50 0 0>/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat
> > > >rw,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>cheers................dave
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>Reply to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> > > >>
> > > >>--------------------------------------------
> > > >>KMail on Davesmachine
> > > >>Linux Mandrake release 9.1 (Bamboo) for i586
> > > >>Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk i686 / tty4
> > > >>--------------------------------------------
> > > >>    
> > > >>
> > > 
> > > 
> -- 
> 
>  .''`.     Paul William
> : :'  :    Debian admin and user
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