Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
Still no joy. On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote: Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices. Miark Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the MCC? If so, autofs wsa not even listed as something to turn on or off. It

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:45:19PM -0500, Miark wrote: It's simpler to type the following on the commandline as root: supermount disable Well, I did this. and to make it permanent: supermount -i disable And then I did this to make it permanent. Now it takes five and a half

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying supermount: command not found Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Andrew Scotchmer wrote: I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying supermount: command not found Andrew try:

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:34:03PM +, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 10:40 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: /usr/sbin/supermount -i disable Thanks that Alan. Got rid of the supermount but I still cannot accesss my CDROM. Heres my /etc/fstab file for anyone interested: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8

[newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
It takes a few minutes to mount a CDROM on my drive using Mandrake 9.0. This is too long. I have a dual-boot machine, choice of SuSE or Mandrake. There is no working Microsoft software on the machine. With SuSE it takes less than a second to mount the CDROM. I suspect very strongly that this

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-10 Thread Mike
On Monday 10 March 2003 04:17 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: It takes a few minutes to mount a CDROM on my drive using Mandrake 9.0. This is too long. I have a dual-boot machine, choice of SuSE or Mandrake. There is no working Microsoft software on the machine. With SuSE it takes less than a

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-10 Thread Miark
It's simpler to type the following on the commandline as root: supermount disable and to make it permanent: supermount -i disable Miark On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:41:45 -0500 Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved this problem by disabling supermount on my removable drives.You can do