]]On Behalf Of
Ronald J. Hall
Sent: Sunday, 24 November 2002 5:53 PM
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On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:16 am, you wrote:
No, even brand new CDrom drives have problems. I'll restate the bit
about CD-RW's having 'better' lasers
Technoslick wrote:
I believe the same. Therefore, after having said what I did in my earlier
post, I still would like to see us all look for fixes. There's so much
talent coming here that I find it hard to believe we can't systematically
find some direction in helping Mandrake resolve the
I have to agree, John.
If you would, please see my other post, Re:[newbie] Supermount
Troubleshooting Tips Info. It would be great for you to list your
specifics for everyone to compare with. It's my hope that Mandrake will look
to these posts as valuable data, too.
Thanks,
T
- Original
On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 3:57 pm, Franki wrote:
I agree, thats why they are lite-on's
I always buy them, and generally they are flawless...
by burner and DVD player are liteon as well.. never put a foot wrong..
for the price, you can't do better.
I recently spoke to the technical support at
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 12:04, RichardA wrote:
Bloody hell. You think you have a vague idea how *nix works, and then you
realise there are whole areas you've never considered.
When I started I did a cat /bin and /usr/bin thinking I had all the possible
commands. Yeah right...
Is there
On Friday November 22 2002 10:52 am, Franki wrote:
I have no user in my fstab at all.. and I had to copy my CD's to
the local hard drive to install stuff.. otherwise rpmdrake just asks
for the same CD over and over, even when it has the right one..
If I used them more, i'd take out
, 23 November 2002 9:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
On Friday November 22 2002 10:52 am, Franki wrote:
I have no user in my fstab at all.. and I had to copy my CD's to
the local hard drive to install stuff.. otherwise rpmdrake just asks
for the same CD
Supermount (and Mandrake) IMO, are falling victim to complaints
based on the assumption it's the OS's fault, when surely, user, then
IMHO this is unneccessary generalisation.
My CDs work fine when mounted manually. They work terribly when using
supermount. It was possible to copy one
On Saturday 23 November 2002 08:58 am, Milos Prudek wrote:
Supermount (and Mandrake) IMO, are falling victim to complaints
based on the assumption it's the OS's fault, when surely, user, then
IMHO this is unneccessary generalisation.
My CDs work fine when mounted manually. They work
On Saturday November 23 2002 08:21 am, Franki wrote:
normally I'd agree with you, except that the drive in question is a
nearly new 48X...
and I also have a brand new 50x that has the same problem..
but like I said, I upgraded to 2.4.20-0.2mdk kernel yesterday, and it
all seems good now..
I think the debate over using supermount or not has no proper right or wrong
answer, right now. To me, this is one of those Chevy vs. Ford arguments
('scuse the American reference..I can't think of an international one at the
moment. :-) For every one of us that says it works wonderfully, there's
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 3:27 pm, Technoslick wrote:
No doubt, Mandrake will find a way to make it work some day. It needed to
be done yesterday, but since it hasn't, mulling over its value is just a an
exercise in futility unless someone can come up with a way to make it work
for everyone. The
Yes,
lsof and fuser
Richard
--- Milos Prudek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Remember, we're dealing with Unix here,
essentially, and Unix increments a
reference count on a file or directory whenever it
is accessed. Whenever
Is there a utility that would display processes
which keep a
On Friday 22 November 2002 10:58 pm, you wrote:
Ron,
Did'nt you encounter problems with supermount and installation of games
under Transgaming WineX?
And do these problems happen with your son's machine?
--LX
Hi Lyvim! Sure did. I had to disable supermount under 8.2 just to get my
On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:16 am, you wrote:
No, even brand new CDrom drives have problems. I'll restate the bit
about CD-RW's having 'better' lasers (and spindles). As to 48x and 50x,
I've found the the faster drives tend to have more problems. Civileme
stated much the same in a
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 11:04 pm, Technoslick wrote:
I believe the same. Therefore, after having said what I did in my earlier
post, I still would like to see us all look for fixes. There's so much
talent coming here that I find it hard to believe we can't systematically
find some direction in
Anne Wilson wrote:
As I said recently, when things don't work properly I always wonder if I
didn't set it up properly - and it often proves to be the case.
Like many people I was having problems with supermount. Through MCC I checked
out all the settings, then re-read Mandrake's warnings
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
As I said recently, when things don't work properly I always wonder if I
didn't set it up properly - and it often proves to be the case.
Like many people I was having problems with supermount. Through MCC I
checked out all the
Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
As I said recently, when things don't work properly I always wonder if I
didn't set it up properly - and it often proves to be the case.
Like many people I was having problems
John,
I use Supermount and have two scsi-emulated drives. Never had
a single problem, and I don't baby it in any way, shape, or
form.
Miark
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:57:35 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Out of interest does your altered supermount work in all respects
with
Title: RE: [newbie] First suspect - me
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson
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Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 6:18 pm, mike wrote
Its wrong for mandrake to expect poeple to just wait for the next version to
fix such a huge bug..
particularly when supermount was one of the touted benefits of mandrake
over tbe others..
I agree 100%
I'm using autofs because supermount does not work reliably.
I'm a former RedHat user. I
Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
Its wrong for mandrake to expect poeple to just wait for the next version
to
fix such a huge bug..
particularly when supermount was one of the touted benefits of mandrake
over tbe others..
I agree 100%
I'm using autofs because supermount does not work
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me
Its wrong for mandrake to expect poeple to just wait for the next version
to
fix such a huge bug..
particularly when supermount was one of the touted benefits of mandrake
over tbe others
Technoslick wrote:
Hold it! Rephrase in order!
What I meant is compare autofs to supermount, without the obvious fact that
supermount doesn't always work out of the picture.
autofs is somewhat more diffcult to set up. You create a directory other
than /mnt, for instance I use /media. You
On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:18 am, you wrote:
Franki wrote:
as a result of this, I think mdk7.2 is still their best ever release..
anyone else agree with me??
rgds
Frank
7.2 was good--but I like 8.0 and 8.2 also. More than 7.2, I guess, because I
still run both but retired
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