Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 03:41 pm, you wrote: Several of my GNU/Linux native games from a variety of vendors (Loki, LGP, etc) had problems installing from the CD-ROM as well.  When I disabled supermount, they all installed flawlessly.  Something is definitely up with supermount.  But it

Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 11 October 2002 06:16 am, you wrote: No, this is not hardware specific. 8.2 worked fine in this machine as well. Plus many other 9.0 users on the list reported similar problems. I'm almost certain it's a 9.0 supermount problem. Disabling supermount allowed me to immediately

Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 October 2002 8:11 am, Erylon Hines did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Friday 11 October 2002 06:16 am, you wrote: No, this is not hardware specific. 8.2 worked fine in this machine as well. Plus many other 9.0 users on

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread Miark
I've noticed that on the CLI, if you're actually in a CD directory, you can't unmount the drive until you cd out. Makes sense: keep it mounted until everybody is done with it. Perhaps you experienced the same thing in Konq? Miark my only trouble is that sometimes you have to close the

Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread Todd Flinders
No, this is not hardware specific. 8.2 worked fine in this machine as well. Plus many other 9.0 users on the list reported similar problems. I'm almost certain it's a 9.0 supermount problem. Disabling supermount allowed me to immediately install those same CDs without problem. My guess is

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 October 2002 9:54 am, Miark did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I've noticed that on the CLI, if you're actually in a CD directory, you can't unmount the drive until you cd out. Makes sense: keep it mounted until everybody is

Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 11 October 2002 11:06 am, you wrote: Versions 8.0 and 8.2's supermount have worked fine on my 2 sons comps. (they are simple - 1 HD, 1 CD-ROM, 1 floppy - mine is more complex, 1 HD, SCSI CD-ROM, SCSI CD-RW, Zip drive, etc, etc) Does complexity seem to be a common factor? I don't

Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread Todd Flinders
This seems silly to me, but I happen to have a Pioneer DVD-115 and a Yamaha 8/8/16. Again, it seems like you're missing this. Supermount worked perfectly on this exact hardware with 8.2. As soon as 9.0 was installed, certain CDs could not be read by supermount. Lots of testing showed this

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-11 Thread FemmeFatale
At 02:41 AM 10/11/2002 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 October 2002 9:54 am, Miark did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I've noticed that on the CLI, if you're actually in a CD directory, you can't unmount the drive until you cd out. Makes

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-09 Thread robin
Damian wrote: El Lun 07 Oct 2002 14:06, Sean Goh escribió: ok how do i use the cp command? i tried cp file a: but it doesn't cp file /mnt/floppy ( a: is just the weird name that Billy G picked for the floppy. ;oP ) And people say that Linux is less intuitive than Windows ;-) I'd

RE: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-09 Thread falcaraz
: Lunes, Octubre 7, 2002 4:06 pm Asunto: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A: ok how do i use the cp command? i tried cp file a: but it doesn't worki looked at the man pages and it doesn't show me how to copy to a drive. Also how to i disable supermount? Regards, Sean Ronald J. Hall

RE: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-09 Thread JM5379
transgaming also has a warning about running supermount while installing/running games from CD on 9.0. apparently supermount has problems beyond any specific mountpoint for now. --- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] can't copy

Re: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-09 Thread Todd Flinders
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] can't copy to A: I think is a supermount problem; with 9.0 and supermount dissabled you can copy files between two konqueror windows, one of them with the floppy and the other with cdrom or the harddisk. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-07 Thread Sean Goh
ok how do i use the cp command? i tried cp file a: but it doesn't worki looked at the man pages and it doesn't show me how to copy to a drive. Also how to i disable supermount? Regards, Sean Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:42 am, you wrote: This is a

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-07 Thread Paul
In reply to Sean's mail, d.d. Mon, 07 Oct 2002 22:06:14 +0800: ok how do i use the cp command? i tried cp file a: but it doesn't worki looked at the man pages and it doesn't show me how to copy to a drive. cp file /mnt/floppy Also how to i disable supermount? man supermount: NAME

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-07 Thread Damian
El Lun 07 Oct 2002 14:06, Sean Goh escribió: ok how do i use the cp command? i tried cp file a: but it doesn't cp file /mnt/floppy ( a: is just the weird name that Billy G picked for the floppy. ;oP ) -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama)

[newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-06 Thread Sean Goh
Hi, i've a problem copying files from M8.2 to the floppy disk...i use the conquerer and i used the copy and paste method but as a paste it to the floppy directory, the computer hangs after a second or two. Previosly i could copy to A: without a problem using the same method. And it gradually

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-06 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 00:16, Sean Goh wrote: Hi, i've a problem copying files from M8.2 to the floppy disk...i use the conquerer and i used the copy and paste method but as a paste it to the floppy directory, the computer hangs after a second or two. Previosly i could copy to A: without a