Re: [Cooker] Innovations for Mandrake Linux

[Owen Savill]

There is a 2.5 and 2.4 kernel patch available for the SanDisc USB disk caddy. Has this been considered for inclusion into a Mandrake 2.4 kernel ? It may be usefull and would stop me having to build my own kernel all the time :-)

Thanks,
Owen

Marcel Pol wrote:

On 18 Jan 2003 17:47:28 +0000
Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Usb-storage works mostly automatic on Mandrake. Modules get loaded by
hotplug, and an icon appears on the desktop (kde/gnome) to mount it
manual. I myself don't use a desktop, so I set it up with supermount.
It seemed to work fine for me that way. Maybe supermount (or autofs)
can be used by default for usb-storage? Or is that not such a good
idea?

how can you set it with supermount?

I just set it by hand by looking at the supermount entry of the floppy.
The supermount executable can't enable it, only for floppies and cdrom I
believe. I have this:
/mnt/camera /mnt/camera supermount
dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0

But, er, what happens if you want to plug something different in? Say a
USB floppy drive or something?

If that uses also usb-storage, then it gets seen as /dev/sda also. If there's
a /dev°sda1 it will be mounted. I don't have such a thing, but I'd expect that
that would happen.



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Marcel Pol