hi there...can anyone send me a copy of their original /etc/fstab file...i was messing around with it..but i did it a bit too much probably...and i've lost the backup copy... cheers regards Maurizio
-- Messaggio Originale -- >Ciao, > >Many of us are having problems with LM8.1's Supermount. Some of the >suggestions that I've seen have been to use KDF (Kdiskfree) and/or add >CDRom icons to the Desktop. Although these give us the ability to access > >the removable media, it is an awkward step backwards. So I'm starting >this thread to hopefully help those that are having this problem and of >course, the many that will encounter this problem. If some of these >methods don't work, please contribute to this solution. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >--------------------------------- > >LM8.1 & Supermount - Getting the darn thing to work. - FYI. > >I've been fooling around with the CDRoms and Floppy lines in fstab >and got Supermount to work for both the CDRoms and Floppy drive. > >Try these lines (one line per device): > >/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount >fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/hdc,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 > >/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount >fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 > >/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount >fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 > >After saving /etc/fstab with your new lines, do a > umount -a >and then > mount -a > >Now they should mount automatically. > >Observations: Some things that oddly caused this Not to work: > >"fs=auto" - (instead, I had to use iso9660 for the CDRoms and vfat for >the >floppy) > >"iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850" - (I just removed these because they > >kept interferring with Supermount) > >Good Luck, >Sevatio > > >On Wednesday 24 October 2001 04:11am, you wrote: >> Hi everyone... >> I noticed that when I put the cdrom in the player and open it everything >> works fine...but afterwards it's impossible to eject it or unmount it...cos >> it says it's not mounted....if I try to remount it...well it says it's >> already mounted...so i think it's taking the piss on me....I have mandrake >> 8.1 ...recomended installation...kde as GUI...and thats all...any idea???? >> Thanks in advance Regards >> Maurizio >> >> >> >> __________________________________________________________________ >> Abbonati a Tiscali! >> Con Tiscali By Phone puoi anche ascoltare ed inviare email al telefono. >> Chiama Tiscali By Phone all' 892 800 http://byphone.tiscali.it > >---------------------------------------- >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Content-Description: >---------------------------------------- > > > __________________________________________________________________ Abbonati a Tiscali! Con Tiscali By Phone puoi anche ascoltare ed inviare email al telefono. Chiama Tiscali By Phone all' 892 800 http://byphone.tiscali.it
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