1. My Mandrake 10.0 Community installed without one single problem and it correctly recognised all my hardware - guess I was one of the lucky ones.
2. Is there any way to disable "supermount"? If so, how and where? Thank you, y'all are great! Maybe I need to join a LUG or something. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 4:14 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 00:45, Ian MacGregor wrote: > > These mailing lists are great...everyone is so helpful. Best > > mailing list I've ever seen. Maybe y'all can help me too. > > Maybe...at least we'll try... > > > I have a 3.5 floppy icon on the desktop which has a tiny green > > arrow at the bottom right corner... this means that the floppy is > > mounted. But this shows up as soon as I boot the computer, so the > > floppy is mounted from the time of boot. I can read and write to > > floppies and Konqueror will show the correct floppy contents when > > I change floppies, however, when I right-click and choose > > 'unmount', before ejecting the floppy, I get an error saying: > > > > umount: only root can unmount none from /mnt/floppy > > Please check that the disk is entered correctly. > > This means that you probably have "supermount" enabled. If so, you > can safely eject the floppy without unmounting it first. But wait a > second or 3 depending on your "sync" frequency. > > > Still new to Linux and was told to never eject a floppy until it > > is unmounted. So, I have been leaving the darn thing mounted all > > the time, but ejecting the floppies anyway. Is it safe to just > > leave it alone and eject floppies whether it is unmounted or not? > > Or, is there some way I can fix this? > > You have done your homework well. Until the arrival of a > (functional) supermount exactly that was the gospel. > > > My Mandrake 10.0 Community install does have some problems in its > > current state, and I have been hearing that other people have the > > same problems and will, hopefully, be fixed when the 'Official' > > release is out. However, as it is, Mandrake 10.0 beats anything > > else I have tried, including other distros, and I ain't going > > back to Windoze > > > > Ian MacGregor > > The "Official" release is out. Of course there are problems. > Consider the huge variations in hardware combinations and it would > be a miracle if Mandrake (or any other OS) installed without a > hiccup somewhere. But that's what this list is for (amongst > others). > > Welcome to the free community ! > > Kaj Haulrich. -- ----------------------------- Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them!
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