On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 10:28, John Richard Smith wrote: > At last I found the time to get M9.0 on in dual boot with M8.2 > last night. > > 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 eeeyuch. I hate supermount.
> > 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 what? The burner software will access them over SCSI and the rest will access them as IDE. It's a better solution the way I see it. (I'm not and ide-scsi or burner expert, so get somebody to check me on this...) > 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 Your best bet is to screw supermount,if you can deal with mount and umount (not that hard). Change the /etc/fstab back to the way it was before and do: supermount disable as root. Supermount is supposed to work, but I've discovered that it doesn't most of the time. -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42!
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