I can now see the problems with supermount.
The straight install creates:-
fstab
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dnone /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy2 supermount
dev=/dev/fd1,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0
0ev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
which is wrong because I have both my dvd and writer configured under
scsi-emulation in lilo.conf so that the writer programmes can use them
both'
with ,append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nobiospnp"
So I rewrote fstab:-
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy2 supermount
dev=/dev/fd1,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
Note : DVD is master Writer Slave on same IDE line.
However, having created on desktop in the usual right mouse click way
four icons,
CD/DVD-ROM Device , pointing to /mnt/cdrom supermount
CD/DVD-ROM Device2 , pointing to /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
Floppy Device a , pointing to /mnt/floppy supermount
Floppy Device b , pointing to /mnt/floppy2 supermount
none of them will mount and display anything
instead I get reported,
Could not mount device, reported error:-
mount: Can't find supermount in /etc/fstab, and /etc/mtab
Having said that, xcdroast recognises the devices , so it likes the
entries in fstab and lilo.conf. At first it seemed to be the entries in
fstab
for supermount in conjunction with scsi-emulation that are the problem,
and to that end I tried removing the "none" in front of the fstab
entries for the cdrom's ,my reasoning being that perhaps under
scsi-emulation cdrom's are real devices , but then the above
supermount entries do not work with my floppy drives either , which
of course are not scsi-emulated. So what is the problem ?
John
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