Michael Notforyou wrote:
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 10:28, John Richard Smith wrote:OK, I guess that is what I must do, abandom supermount for scsi-emulation.
At last I found the time to get M9.0 on in dual boot with M8.2 last night.eeeyuch. I hate supermount.
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 underSo what? The burner software will access them over SCSI and the rest
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"
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:-Your best bet is to screw supermount,if you can deal with mount and
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
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.
It is just that if someone had worked how to do it I wanted to know.
I can live with semi-supermount if need be, certainly I cannot do without
scsi-emulation, all the writer programmes demand it.
John
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