Carl Cerecke wrote:
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Quick note to say that the 7-in-1 card reader from flashcards.co.nz works like a charme (well, with CF, didn't test others). All hardware should be like that: plug in, computer beeps, icon appears on desktop, clicking icon shows all the files in the file manager. Right click icon, unmount, unplug, finished.
Doesn't do that on my RH 9. I had a fiddle with automount/autofs, but didn't get it going in the time I had. We're upgrading to Mandrake 10 here at work, so I'll borrow the CD's and install that at home too. Hopefully that will be better. I might be a RH -> Mandrake convert :-) I'm not going back to RedHat/Fedora in a hurry anyway. I switched to RH from Slackware at about RH 4-5 because it was "better". Now, it looks like Mandrake's turn. No Gentoo for me yet. Not with a 56k modem, and not much time to "fiddle".
Then do NOT install Mandrake 10 until the proper release comes out! Unless you want to play a little Russian roulette. The lists are replete with most unhappy chappies...
Cheers
Anton
Actually to be frank, the card I got from Jason (bless his cotton socks, cos the camera kicks butt) doesn't work that flash (OK, that was bad :-)) on my MDK 9.2. It barfed several times trying to install 4 new harddrives, which ends up just giving rubbish when trying to install them... It also can make the boot process take 5+minutes. Once it get up then things seem to be ok, but it is a bit of a PITA. But that may be my MDK install. I think I am going to go Suse. I really wanted a proper European distro (meaning not owned by Georgie's boys), but MDK is just beginning to piss me off. I lost my networking once too often, I'm afraid...
Cheers
Anton
ps If I keep it unplugged until later then it seems to work as expected. So I just don't leave it plugged in all the time. Not really a biggie, I'll grant.
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