On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:57:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > I am having a Dickens of a time with this supermount. I am using the
> > new Helium and either in root or my dir, yes I can click on my floppy
> > icon and access the floppy disk. However, if I want to use the floppy
> > for anything else, say to make a mkbootdisk, I cannot access my
> > floppy.
>
> mkbootdisk $(uname -r)
yes, I use this too.
> I get "not a valid block device" ... Or sometimes, I have to
> > umount the floppy first and then mount it again. It varies. On the 7.0
> > version of Mandrake, I did not have this problem. My floppy icon
> > could be either mounted or umounted, by right clicking it, or using
> > the command line.
> > What is the purpose of this supermount? Why do I need it? How can I
> > turn it off, so that I can use my floppy like any other distro?
> see 'man supermount', then do 'supermount disable'
thanks, did figure it had one on supermount.
> I believe you'd be better off to learn how to use supermount tho.
Why Tom, if I use mkbootdisk, it will not work if I have supermount
installed until I umount it first. The script for my mkbootdisk I
believe starts with mounting the floppy which of course is already
done, so it errors unless I umount the floppy first. The supermount
concept, to me, just doesn't make sense. I have no control over the
floppy.
Regards,
Gary
