On Saturday 24 November 2001 07:22 am, robin wrote:
>   After installing Mandrake 8.1, I noticed that autofs had not been
> installed - somewhat to my surprise, since Mandrake usually installs and
> configures this by default.

Ummm no, we use supermount because autofs doesn't play nice with some other 
things.

  I've now installed it and it shows up as in
> DrakConf and lsmod, but am having problems with configuration.  At
> present, the relevant line in my /etc/auto.master file is
>
> floppy    /etc/auto.misc    timeout=60
>
> and in /etc/auto.misc I have
>
> floppy    -fstype=auto    :/dev/fd0
>
> Presumably something is seriously wrong here, since the thing isn't
> mounting.  Manual mounting works fine (though clicking the floppy icon
> takes me not to /mnt/floppy but to some name search site!).
>

Do NOT use autofs.  Make yourself some regular desktop icons for CD and 
floppy and click to mount, right-click to unmount or eject.  We shipped with 
supermount disabled by default for a reason.  Despite our rewrite, the thing 
doesn't wprk as it should with kernel 2.4 versions.  This is a continuation 
of problems encountered in 8.0 only more severe.

For the whole story search on FAQ and on autofs on www.mandrakeforum.com

Civileme
QA Team


> I have a pretty standard Mandrake setup, so if someone could send me the
> relevant configuration files, they'd probably work on my box.  Unless I
> have to recompile the kernel ..... :-(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robin

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