Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
Here's a tip: Don't recompile your kernel unless you know what you're doing. Oh well, a complete re-install only takes an hour :) Live and learn... I guess. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 7:12 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:46, Ian MacGregor wrote: > > > > > > Supermount is O

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:46, Ian MacGregor wrote: > > > Supermount is OK now. But if you want to be in control, having > > the conn, decide for yourself and feel good, disable i > > > I did disable it, and my system would not boot at all. > I had to boot from a LiveCD and delete fstab and mt

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
Thank you, this is most helpful :) On Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:42, Ian MacGregor wrote: > > > > > Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive > > is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a > > LiveC

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:42, Ian MacGregor wrote: > Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive > is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a > LiveCD (Knoppix) and using their format floppy tool. You cannot format anything mounted. Mounted means that

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
> Supermount is OK now. But if you want to be in control, having the > conn, decide for yourself and feel good, disable i I did disable it, and my system would not boot at all. I had to boot from a LiveCD and delete fstab and mtab and replace them with the old copies I made before I made any cha

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a LiveCD (Knoppix) and using their format floppy tool. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:28, Ian MacGregor wrote: > >

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:28, Ian MacGregor wrote: > 2. Is there any way to disable "supermount"? If so, how and > where? You can do it by editing (as root) /etc/fstab. But why ? Until a few months ago supermount was a pain in the ass and we all had to disable it, meaning we had to mount e

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
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 Wednesda

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
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 rig

[newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
These mailing lists are great...everyone is so helpful. Best mailing list I've ever seen. Maybe y'all can help me too. 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 th