Guest mandrake123 Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 What will disabling supermount actually do? Others say it is dangerous. is turning it back on as easy as typing 'supermount -i enable' ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 Disabling supermount isn't dangerous at all man .. lol Supermount mounts the cdroms/floppys for you when you pop them in. It looks like cool like that but this is a Mandrake's feature and it is rather buggy. Lots of people having problems seeing files on their cdrom of floppy due to that. Make a search about that .. you'll see. Once supermount is disabled, you have to mount and umount the cdroms and floppys by yourself though. No big deal if you use KDE, there is a removable media icon on the desktop. So clic and right clic the device you want to mount/umount and select what you want to do (mount, umount or eject). Il you use another desktop (icewm, blackbox, gnome ..) then you can always create an icon on the desktop (right clic, select new ...) or do it in a console. To mount your cdrom: mount /mnt/cdrom To umount your cdrom before to eject it: umount /mnt/cdrom To eject your cdrom eject /mnt/cdrom Note that you can't eject a device while it is mounted. MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 Actually, in kde, the act of ejecting my devices unmounts them. So, I use mount or eject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mandrake123 Posted December 16, 2002 Report Share Posted December 16, 2002 Ok i.m having some other problems now, so im gonna put this on hold for now. Problems are unrelated to this cdrom issue so i will start new threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goprisko Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hello: I have lots of experience backing up Unix Systems. There we mostly wanted / and /usr and /etc to preserve the system. We generally used tar to tape. But now I have mandrake and a CD-R or a DVD-R To avoid all the pain discussed above could someone please explain a solid backup method or strategy. One which will permit reconfiguring the disk, followed by restore. I have a 2005-r3 system and added Thac KDE 3.4.0 OpenOffice 1.9, and Koffice. I Backed it up using K3b, but the restore failed, even though I hand modified fstab and lilo.config and re ran lilo. Regards, Indy aec1@szu.edu.cn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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