Hi, I got curious and investigated a little bit yesterday on what is happening when the cdrom and floppy are mounted.
mount /mnt/floppy results in /dev/fd0 unknown device, while a mount /mnt/cdrom leads to the machine hanging up on me. Next I looked at /dev/fd0 and /dev/hdd in the /dev directory. These are links to /dev/floppy/0 and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. These seem OK to me in the scheme of things, but then for some reason cdroms and floppies cannot be mounted. Interestingly, the system mounts a windows partition on the harddisc, and all other ext2, ext3 and reiser partitions without any complaint or problem. I tried to revert to the MDK 8,0 kernel, but that seems to break a lot of things, no ext3 support, no xinetd, and also problems mounting some filesystems. Could someone suggest some way out of this problem. Can someone help me with the intricacies of the devfs? Or should I just upgrade to kernel 2.4.12 and hope that this device mounting problem is solved without this again breaking something? Has anyone tried out 2.4.12, does supermount work with 2.4.12? These are some questions that come in mind. Experts please help! Or at least send me the e-mail address of some of the relevant guys at Mandrakesoft, they might know the answers. Arnab > ---------- > From: Arnab_Ganguly > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:53 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [expert] Strange behaviour of 8.1 > > Hi Mark, > > Well well, I think that is the problem because when I tried running from > an xterm by tying konqueror& it said something to the effect "cannot find > user name for ID 501..." > > Thanks for pointing this out, hope someone points out what is going on > with the performance issues related to prelinking etc. _______<SNIP>----------------------------------------------------------<SNIP >
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