Here is my setup.
PC: Compaq Armada 7800 with P2-300mhz, 128 MB memory, Floppy and DVD-rom
(but no both at the same time), and Mandrak v7.0 (second ISO)
The drive layout is the same on both system.
/dev/hda. One pri-part with W2k, one ext. part which contains the Linux
partions Swap, /boot, /home and /. All Linux part are using extfs2
(default Linux filsystem) except swap which uses the Linux swap filsystem.
I have found the problem to be related the to Compaq Armada setup. This
laptop has one removable bay, which contains either the floppydrive or the
DVD-ROM drive. Both drive are made real by the hardware, and when Linux
boot it find both the floppydrive and the DVD-rom. It will find them both
also if non of them is present. Normally I have the DVD rom present.
When I removed the floppydisk mount from /etc/fstab, it all worked ok.
So it seems to me that using supermount on devices that are not there (they
are made virtuall by the hardware), is not a good idea. But I think that
this is an error in how the suportmount functions work. Why should
programs like rpm and the Citrix ICA client be affected by suportmount on
directory /mnt/floppy (or /mnt/A as I called it). Do these programs make
a scan of the local devices (maybe Citrix ICA client does, but rpm ...?)
Here is my fstab file.
/dev/hda2 /mnt/C vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
/dev/hda5 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda8 / ext2 noatime 1 1
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/A auto user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/CD supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
Regards
Oystein Hermansen
Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09.02.2000 05:07:18
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Subject: Re: [expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Oeystein Hermansen wrote:
>
> It worked.
>
> Removing supermount made RPM work ok again. And it also made the Citrix
> ICA client work ok when I have mapped local drives (eg C:\ on the NT
system
> was my home directory on the Linux system). So by by supermount. I
will
> start using you when you do not mess up my system
>
> Regards
>
> Oystein
Can you detail for us please you drive layout, and exactly what forms and
types of media are and arenot inserted when the problem occurs Please
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