[luau] Mandrake vs. Red Hat

Joe Linux joelinux at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 20 07:25:00 PDT 2002


Here's my "fstab" line.  What does yours look like?

/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount 
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:

> Some comments on using XCdroast in Mandrake 8.2, I don't think it has 
> been reported anywhere else:
>
> Mandrake uses supermount as default in fstab which is great but it 
> also causes some problems.  For example, it does not allow me to 
> install MS Office under Codeweavers' Crossover (couldn't find the 
> cdrom drive).  I had to manually umount the cdrom drive (i.e., 
> unmounted it as a supermount), then mount it with the regular -t 
> iso9660 -o -ro options.
>
> With regard to XCdroast, in order to make it work under Mandrake, I 
> had to go to "Mandrake Control Center", "Mount Point", then mount 
> Cdburner as scd0.  Voila!
>
> Once I was successful in doing that, I then did the same thing for my 
> other Cdrom, mounted it as scd1.  Everything works great.  I can now 
> duplicate CDROMS on the fly.
>
>
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