[Cooker] supermount vs konqueror or dev.cdrom.autoclose sysctl

flepied as owner of initscripts, warly as release planner and others for comments :) may I ask once more that Mandrake include dev.cdrom.autoclose=0 as default in /etc/sysctl.conf. This is the "least surprise" case for most users. This should be added on update unless already exists too. while

[Cooker] Supermount FAQ

I compiled a small supermount FAQ, link is . Home page also has link to DocBook source. Comments, submissions and corrections are welcome. This includes DocBook usage and style (it is my first document ever, I opted for D

[Cooker] supermount for 2.4.20

anybody is using (needs) it? Danny, ppc kernel is based on 2.4.20 AFAIK or can you use 2.4.21+ patch? else I'll drop it as soon as something in kernel part changes. thank you -andrey

Re: [Cooker] supermount-ng

> I would like to know if you consider using supermount-ng in the > kernel of the next 9.2 ? Who are "you"? As a reminder, it is not official list representing Mandrake official position ... > obiwan (Danny Tholen) has built kernels available on Mandrakeclub > that use it, and it works well. A

[Cooker] supermount-ng

Hi all ! I would like to know if you consider using supermount-ng in the kernel of the next 9.2 ? obiwan (Danny Tholen) has built kernels available on Mandrakeclub that use it, and it works well. A lot of bugs or strange behaviour has been corrected, like the CDROM access for a couple of seconds (e

[Cooker] supermount for 2.5 test version available

See http://supermount-ng.sf.net/ and project page. The patch is for 2.5.70, it won't apply to earlier versions. It needs quite a bit of work still but CD-ROMs (at least, IDE, I do not have SCSI) and floppy seem to work. If anybody desperately needs ide-floppy I could add it, but I'd rather wait

[Cooker] supermount 1.2.1 update

Before I leave for a week a small update (for Danny :) * Sat 05 Apr 2003 Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.2.1 - fixed stupid thinko in mediactl methods (the effect was it was impossible to manually eject ro media). It was exposed by recent changes. No changes in supermount itself

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

Does autofs work reliably with urpmi and removable media? It didn't for me in 8.2. I did urpmi.removemedia for the 8.2 discs, removed the cdrom mount point in fstab then urpmi.addmedia for each disc (/misc/cd), but it would still configure for /mnt/cdrom. I could only install packages by de-config

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

Alan Hughes wrote: The problem is that AFAIK other auto mounters are user-space applications that work by periodically checking to see if a mount point is no longer used, and if so then unmounting it. Typically this check occurs at 30 second intervals (although I understand that most allow you to

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

o: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ? > Robert Denier wrote: > > >You may want to check this but I think > > > >supermount -i disable > > > >will magically change fstab to

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

Robert Denier wrote: You may want to check this but I think supermount -i disable will magically change fstab to get rid of supermount options. (Remember if you mess up fstab your machine may not boot.) Clearly you now have to mount everything by hand, but considering I use a cd at most every

RE: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

doesn't bother me, although thats just my case. -Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cooker-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Eric Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter

[Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

I don't know if it has been discussed here, but since there are so many problems with supermount, why to not use an alternative ? Like autofs ? Is there any technical reason to stick to supermount ? Eric

RE: Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

I had the problem also with commercial cds, for example tuxracer or quake III. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Jueves, Octubre 17, 2002 5:02 am Asunto: Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0 > On Tue, 2

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:44, Joerg Skottke wrote: > Palmer, Hilary wrote: > > I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of > > data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it > > doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

Palmer, Hilary wrote: > I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of > data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it > doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are copied. Then > I need to eject and reinsert the CD to see

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

I am experiencing the disappearing drive problem. I perform an action on a file on the CDROM and suddenly that file just disappears. Supermount seems flakey all over again, but I haven't complained about it yet because I am experiencing problems higher on my agenda ... like 3D accelleration

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

I haven't seen the disappearing drive problem yet, but I have noticed that supermounted CD's don't show up in "df" output anymore. Fine in 8.2. -- Aaron Peromsik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [For thinner oatmeal, add more water.]

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

Hello I saw that problem in my computer too. But i fix it with edit in /etc/fstab file. There isn't any /dev/sd0 file on /dev you must enter directly the /dev/hdx for it. like /dev/hdd for secondery slave cdrom.! >From: Götz Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

On Monday 14 October 2002 14:33, Palmer, Hilary wrote: > I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot > of data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it > doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are copied. > Then I need to

RE: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

OK... Thanks -Original Message- From: Götz Waschk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0 Am Montag, 14. Oktober 2002, 08:33:36 Uhr MET, schrieb Palmer, Hilary: > I loaded 9.0 on my system

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

Am Montag, 14. Oktober 2002, 08:33:36 Uhr MET, schrieb Palmer, Hilary: > I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of > data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it > doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are copied.

[Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are copied. Then I need to eject and reinsert the CD to see anything on it again. If I d

Re: [Cooker] supermount?

> "L" == Lonnie Borntreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: L> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:16, Mario Vazquez wrote: >> There is a fix for supermount on cooker mirrors? L> Yes. It's called autofs. Please explain: "Autofs can also be used to manage file systems on removable media,

Re: [Cooker] supermount?

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:16, Mario Vazquez wrote: > There is a fix for supermount on cooker mirrors? Yes. It's called autofs. TTFN, Lonnie Borntreger

Re: [Cooker] supermount?

Mario Vazquez wrote on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:16:02PM -0400 : > There is a fix for supermount on cooker mirrors? When you see a new version of the kernel come down, that's when you try it. Look through the changelog to see if anything is noted about it. Blue skies... Todd --

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

I have the same problem with "No such file or directory" errors when copying or just reading from my DVD-ROM drive. Reading or copying files from my CD writer, which is using the ide-scsi kernel module, seems to work fine. However, I have not fully tested this theory. I also receive an error:

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

James Sparenberg wrote on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:00:29AM -0700 : > > Cd /mnt/cdrom/some_directory as a user su to root do some work. > eject the cdrom put in a new one. Quite often the new one is > unreadable. ie Understandable. The problem is that the eject should fail with an unab

Re: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

I have got also problems downloading pictures from my usb camera (canon powershot a40). The camera is correctly set up and I can access the image directory with konqueror. But sometimes it hangs during the copy and I have to do it again. Eric Borzenkov Andrey wrote: >I am really sorry but from

RE: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

I am really sorry but from your description it appears not related directly to supermount. I do not know anything about flashcards, sorry :( > > Could this supermount error be related to the problems I am having > with supermount and the usb-uhci/sr_mod loaded Flash memory-card > reader? > > W

RE: Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

Luis, Could you be so kind as explains us in detail how do you have setuped autofs? Thanks so much in advance Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Luis M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Martes, Octubre 1, 2002 2:59 am Asunto: Re: [Cooker] Su

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 13:24, John Allen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Steven Spears wrote: > > > > > Mandrake start ther is an error message: Fault: mount device not found. > > > >I think you need to remove 'auto' and set 'noauto' in the resp

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

Just in case, I disable supermount for both of my cdroms... instead I setup autofs in /misc . Thus now, ls /misc/cdrom brings my CDs just fine. I always wonder why the need for supermount if autofs does the same ... In any case, maybe it's because of supermount that I cannot restart my comput

Re: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

Hi, Am Mon, 2002-09-30 um 18.06 schrieb Gary Lawrence Murphy: > > Could this supermount error be related to the problems I am having > with supermount and the usb-uhci/sr_mod loaded Flash memory-card > reader? > > When I try to use the Flash card with supermount > >none /mnt/flash supermou

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

This is definitely a supermount problem. Manually mounting works perfect.. I have this problem on all my cooker, and 9.0 machines. Tried 2.4.19-12mdk and it fails also. Luis M wrote: > > > That usually means a bad burn. Do this: > > make sure that your ISO's have the right md5sum: > > f7a093af

Re: [Cooker] supermount

aje Original - >Remitente: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Fecha: Lunes, Septiembre 30, 2002 5:13 pm >Asunto: [Cooker] supermount > > > >>I feel a bit responsible for the current state of supermount, since >>I >>talked Juan into fixing floppy-write-PANIC issues

RE: [Cooker] supermount

ution, adding the solution in "errata". Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Lunes, Septiembre 30, 2002 5:13 pm Asunto: [Cooker] supermount > > I feel a bit responsible for the current state of supermount, sin

Re: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

Could this supermount error be related to the problems I am having with supermount and the usb-uhci/sr_mod loaded Flash memory-card reader? When I try to use the Flash card with supermount none /mnt/flash supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,user,noauto 0 0 it reads a few files and then hangs.

[Cooker] supermount

I feel a bit responsible for the current state of supermount, since I talked Juan into fixing floppy-write-PANIC issues, which seems to have utterly broken supermount for CDROMS in the released 9.0 kernel. A simple 'find' in /mnt/cdrom will probably reveal what I'm talking about (half the fil

[Cooker] Supermount severe bug in 9.0

I am very surprised about the escarce interest that this bug has in cooker list. For linux users is not so problematic disable supermount, but for those new in linux is a real nightmare and: Supermount is enabled by default in 9.0! In the press release of 9.0 one of the remarqued points is, gue

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

All md5sums check out perfect and it doesn't just happen with burnt CDs. It happens with any, and my installs with these CDs were flawless over four+ computers so far. Don't think it's the CDs. Steve On Sunday 29 September 2002 3:51 pm, Luis M wrote: > That usually means a bad burn. Do this

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

I understand. My point is that either we get SOMETHING that works or IMHO take out Supermount (or other like programs) altogether and setup Kwikdisk to start automatically so newbies can mount/unmount CD's easily. This is getting tedious. I have been running ML (all major releases and cooker) f

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Jason wrote: > important to have working. I think adding in Alan Cox's fix would be a > good idea. It is not a real fix, it is a different program. It already works for CDs, but no floppies AFAIK. I might try to build an rpm and put it into contrib. But it is still very al

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Luis M wrote: > > > That usually means a bad burn. Do this: How is this a bad burn, we are talking about things working with manual mount, but not with supermount. To be even more specific, sometimes I see half of the dirs, somethimes the other half. Even on commercial CD

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

I have the same problem on my Laptops (seems to work ok on my desktop systems so far). I have to disable supermount to be able to properly mount/unmount/use CD's. Plus, once disabled, I have to shut down and restart the system for the change to take effect, rebooting isn't enough. Supermount s

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

That usually means a bad burn. Do this: make sure that your ISO's have the right md5sum: f7a093af34b8cbe1abc165213fea9deb Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso 05a3ccafaacc37d6d1e2f260fc274549 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso 1a2fd731fb6e30d39b0b99f504b231b3 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso To check the md5

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Steven Spears wrote: > > Mandrake start ther is an error message: Fault: mount device not found. >I think you need to remove 'auto' and set 'noauto' in the responsible >fstab line. Otherwise system will try to mount the empt

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Steven Spears wrote: > > > Mandrake start ther is an error message: Fault: mount device not found. I think you need to remove 'auto' and set 'noauto' in the responsible fstab line. Otherwise system will try to mount the empty drive, which will fail ofcourse. It is not a rea

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

Steven Spears wrote: > Ran the test and sure enough, I get the same error as well. I opened the > CD-ROM with 9.0 CD-ROM #2 and created a directory and opened it. Then I did a > mass select in the RPMS2 directory and drug them into the new test directory. > The copy started off fine but then ca

[Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

>From the CarshTesters List: Date 29 Sep 2002 12:25 Subject Re: [CrashTesters] 9.0 Supermount nightmare On 29 Sep 2002 12:09 CDT you wrote: > On 29 Sep 2002 06:24 CDT you wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0: > > > > 1- With superm

[Cooker] supermount device icons on desktop

In beta4, the CD-ROM and floppy icons are displayed on my desktop, even though those devices aren't mounted. (There's no floppy or CD in the drive). Rich -- ars Cognita Richard Tango-Lowy - President [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Supermount not working for CDROM or Floppy ?

Computer: WalMart Athlon Mandrake 9.0 beta2 Hi: I insert a floppy and click on the KDE floppy Icon. I can read a floppy OK but I can not mount and read subsequent floppies. A similar thing happens for the CDROM. The first time I click on the KDE Icon I can read my CDROM. However I cannot e

[Cooker] supermount +writing

I do not often use floppy disks, so maybe that's why I never noticed, but both my two (completely different) 8.2 machines freeze hard when copying a few files to a floppy (a few 100 kb). Even mouse freezes. The same error also happens when mounting a vfat HD partition with supermount and copy

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and CDs

> "warly" == Warly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: warly> Mattias Dahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi, >> >> Just wondering if it looks like the problem with supermount and symbolic >> links on CDs will be fixed in time for 8.2. If not, maybe there should be >> some kind of instruction s

Re: [Cooker] supermount & cdrecord: Risky?

»Leon Brooks« sagte am 2002-03-06 um 09:11:02 +0800 : > For *some* IDE CD-RW drives, if the drive is not accessed by supermount via > the _SCSI_ device name instead of the _IDE_ device name, yes, sometimes the > drive gets a little confused about what mode it's in. Otherwise, I've not had > a p

Re: [Cooker] supermount & cdrecord: Risky?

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:16, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Is it risky to leave the cdwriter supermounted when burning CDs? For *some* IDE CD-RW drives, if the drive is not accessed by supermount via the _SCSI_ device name instead of the _IDE_ device name, yes, sometimes the drive gets a little

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and CDs

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 05:33, Warly wrote: > Mattias Dahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just wondering if it looks like the problem with supermount and symbolic > > links on CDs will be fixed in time for 8.2. > Juan said that it will be ok for rc1 It's nice to see more of these explici

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and CDs

Mattias Dahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Just wondering if it looks like the problem with supermount and symbolic > links on CDs will be fixed in time for 8.2. If not, maybe there should be > some kind of instruction somewhere to turn supermount off and re-install > your Loki game i

Re: [Cooker] supermount & cdrecord: Risky?

Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Hi! > > Is it risky to leave the cdwriter supermounted when burning CDs? > > Alexander Skwar > -- > How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) > Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >iso-top.de

[Cooker] supermount & cdrecord: Risky?

Hi! Is it risky to leave the cdwriter supermounted when burning CDs? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen

[Cooker] Supermount and CDs

Hi, Just wondering if it looks like the problem with supermount and symbolic links on CDs will be fixed in time for 8.2. If not, maybe there should be some kind of instruction somewhere to turn supermount off and re-install your Loki game if it doesn't work. Because it's not so easy to connect th

Re: [Cooker] supermount cannot handle symlinks on iso9660

> "goetz" == Goetz Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: goetz> Hi, goetz> there's a problem with CDs mounted with supermount. All symlinks seem goetz> to be broken. For instance on the CD Commercial applications CD 1 from goetz> Mdk 8.1 the symlinks in Mandrake/RPMS4 are broken. They are OK if

[Cooker] supermount cannot handle symlinks on iso9660

Hi, there's a problem with CDs mounted with supermount. All symlinks seem to be broken. For instance on the CD Commercial applications CD 1 from Mdk 8.1 the symlinks in Mandrake/RPMS4 are broken. They are OK if the CD is mounted without supermount. I've tested the kernels 2.4.13-12mdk, 2.4.17-14

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive (suggestion for MDK)

I remember that when supermount was first incorporated into Mandrake, there was an easy to find option during the installation that allowed the user to turn it off before it was installed. Anyway of getting that re-incorporated into 8.2? On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:58 am, Jason Straight wr

[Cooker] Supermount doesn't work !

I tried it with the latest kernel and want to install some new packages. rpmdrake tried to access the drive but was never able to open to drive so i could insert the desired cdrom. turning off supermount solved the problem. Stef

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive (suggestion for MDK)

I agree, my opinion is that supermount sucks, until the kernel handles hot swapping better or something. As soon as I try to access something under the mnt dir or whatever when the wrong device is in all hell breaks loose. I wish for us laptop users with modular accessories mdk would put in a c

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

> "j" == J Patrick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> Hello. j> The subject line is misleading. I did for several days assume that my drive j> had been somehow damaged, but in the preparation of this message, I tried to j> burn a CD again, and it actually worked. j> I recently downloaded

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does it hang after "Turning on user and group quotas for local > filesystems:" messages? In this case (if you can reliably reproduce this > problem) could you try the included patch for /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and > tell if it fixes the problem? The pa

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

yup, It does not seem to have a problem with a 2nd cdrom/cdrw/dvd because the system automatically recognizes the addition of another hd*, hoever the floppy is assumed and not checked so when it is removedlock up. --- "J. Patrick Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > The subject li

RE: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

> The subject line is misleading. The more misleading subject is the more likely messages gets ignored. I did for several days assume that my drive > had been somehow damaged, but in the preparation of this message, I tried to > burn a CD again, and it actually worked. > > I recently downloade

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

i have a smiliar problems too. I have both a 3.5" and a 5.1/4" floppy drive and i know both works but for some reason if i have floppy2 (5.1/4") specified in /etc/fstab it hangs during the kde startup. /MattB On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 09:28, J. Patrick Smith wrote: > Hello. > > The subject line is

[Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

Hello. The subject line is misleading. I did for several days assume that my drive had been somehow damaged, but in the preparation of this message, I tried to burn a CD again, and it actually worked. I recently downloaded 8.2beta1 for testing. Following installation, my system froze during t

Re: [Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

SI Reasoning wrote: > > I have burned cd's without issue while it was > supermounted. > > --- Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fresh Xmas install with no /etc/fstab adaptions by > > hand... > > > > (the first) > > > > ... there where only seconds to finish writing a CD > > ... I opened the

RE: [Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

--- Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is good practice to leave system alone while > burning your CD. > > -andrej > I had one external usb cd writer that was so flaky, that the only way I could consistently get it to burn properly was to run it from blackbox. If I tried to run

RE: [Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

> > I have burned cd's without issue while it was > supermounted. > Of course if you start burn and go away for a while it works. > > > > ... there where only seconds to finish writing a CD > > ... I opened the > > MidnightCommander to easy navigate the fs, taped the > > /mnt directory (mc

Re: [Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

I have burned cd's without issue while it was supermounted. --- Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fresh Xmas install with no /etc/fstab adaptions by > hand... > > (the first) > > ... there where only seconds to finish writing a CD > ... I opened the > MidnightCommander to easy navigate the fs

[Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

Fresh Xmas install with no /etc/fstab adaptions by hand... (the first) ... there where only seconds to finish writing a CD ... I opened the MidnightCommander to easy navigate the fs, taped the /mnt directory (mc reads ahead !?) ... and cdrecord stops writing the cd with an I/O error. Because the

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

--- SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:41:57 -0800 (PST) > From: SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with > removable modules > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If I remove the floppy and re

Fwd: Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

Manual mounting is a foreign concept to newbies so I know there is danger in it, however, I still think it may be wise to give a choice with an explanation. Maybe have a laptop option during install, which will set the system up safest for laptops and auto load a faq with details so that the newb

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

Manual mounting is a foreign concept to newbies so I know there is danger in it, however, I still think it may be wise to give a choice with an explanation. Maybe have a laptop option during install, which will set the system up safest for laptops and auto load a faq with details so that the newbi

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

If I remove the floppy and replace it with a battery or cdrw, the system freezes during bootup, right at the mounting section. This is with supermount, it will work fine without it. --- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Maybe supermo

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

I reported this several time before - on my notebook there is a serious delay after a new install mounting filesystems. And KDE acts real slow because it's constantly trying to access the ls-120/CD combo drive, The solution is to "supermount -i disable" and reboot - all is then OK but of course,

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe supermount should be an option instead of the > default. Laptops with removeable modules, in > particular, removable floppy , can lock up during boot > when the floppy is not installed (if it has already > been setup in supermount). I have not run

[Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

Maybe supermount should be an option instead of the default. Laptops with removeable modules, in particular, removable floppy , can lock up during boot when the floppy is not installed (if it has already been setup in supermount). I have not run into problems with 2nd cdroms (like cdrw) because th

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:05:02 +0300 Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As an addendum the same applies in rpmdrake if installating software > from a > > cd source be it the installation cds or an added cd. > > > > What exactly happens? There was a problem in urpmi that it could

RE: [Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

> As an addendum the same applies in rpmdrake if installating software from a > cd source be it the installation cds or an added cd. > What exactly happens? There was a problem in urpmi that it could not eject supermounted medium (since we switched to "none" for device). It should be fixed in

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

On 29 Jan 2002 23:04:12 +0100 Yves Duret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This was touched on in a previous post but I thought that I would confirm it. > > > > In order to create a bootdisk, using mcc, supermount Must be Disabled. > > i will insp

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This was touched on in a previous post but I thought that I would confirm it. > > In order to create a bootdisk, using mcc, supermount Must be Disabled. i will inspect that asap thanx to report it. -- Yves Duret [EMAIL PROTECTED] piouk toujours e

[Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

This was touched on in a previous post but I thought that I would confirm it. In order to create a bootdisk, using mcc, supermount Must be Disabled. Charles

[Cooker] supermount and eject problems

{pts/1}% sudo urpmi afio eject: unable to find or open device for: `none' We use "none" for device in supermount that (unfortunately) eject does not like. -andrej

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isn't it just a matter of defining your audio directory in XMMS to something else than /mnt/cdrom (for instance: /mnt/audio). Seems to work for me? Danny On Thursday 24 January 2002 00:56, you wrote: > actually there is a plugin on Contrib that let

[Cooker] supermount problem between dvd and cdrom

If I play a dvd on my cdrom/dvd player on my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop using supermount, then when I pop out the dvd and try and read a data cd, it reads it improperly. I have to remount before I can read the cd. = SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There never was a good war or a bad peace." B

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

actually there is a plugin on Contrib that lets you play audio cd's even though supermount is installed but it access the audiotracks another way. /MattB On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 17:23, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Tech At Mathco Dot Com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Would that be considered

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

Tech At Mathco Dot Com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would that be considered a bug in xmms or in supermount Probably a misfeature (rather than a bug) in xmms, which is not aware of supermount. For example for gtktalog I had to ask the author to write special code in order to work ok with super

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

Would that be considered a bug in xmms or in supermount /MattB On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 16:55, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Tech At Mathco Dot Com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It appears whenever xmms is attempting to access the audiotracks from > > /mnt/cdrom it refuses to enter the directo

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

Tech At Mathco Dot Com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears whenever xmms is attempting to access the audiotracks from > /mnt/cdrom it refuses to enter the directory. Konqueror has a lock Yes, the audio read from XMMS has never worked with supermount. You need to umount the cdrom or disable

[Cooker] supermount causes problem for xmms

It appears whenever xmms is attempting to access the audiotracks from /mnt/cdrom it refuses to enter the directory. Konqueror has a lock on the directory also. the KDE CD Player can play cd's fine and i can access the cd from the services line in konqueror file manager. In mandrake 8.1 this wasn'

[Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

It appears whenever xmms is attempting to access the audiotracks from /mnt/cdrom it refuses to enter the directory. Konqueror has a lock on the directory also. the KDE CD Player can play cd's fine and i can access the cd from the services line in konqueror file manager. In mandrake 8.1 t

Re: [Cooker] supermount - constant attepmts to mount empty drives

On Sunday 20 January 2002 04:02, you wrote: -> On þÔ×, 2002-01-17 at 21:27, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: -> > On þÔ×, 2002-01-17 at 17:09, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: -> > > Many people including me are annoyed by supermount attempting to mount -> > > empty drives. It is causing delays in GUI filemanagers;

Re: [Cooker] supermount - constant attepmts to mount empty drives

On þÔ×, 2002-01-17 at 21:27, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > On þÔ×, 2002-01-17 at 17:09, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > Many people including me are annoyed by supermount attempting to mount > > empty drives. It is causing delays in GUI filemanagers; it also makes > > zsh completion really slow (just try

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