Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Matt Stamm" <mattsl@xxxxxxxxx>]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Peter A. Taylor" <murmur@xxxxxxx>
Date:  Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:54:29 -0600

>On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:32, Matt Stamm wrote:
>> I just started using Suse 10 and noticed that the
>> floppy gets mounted during system-startup. I'm use
>> to Suse 8.1 where I mount and un-mount the floppy
>> as needed. How can I prevent the floppy mount during
>> system startup? I looked breifly in Yast but didn't
>> see anything.
>
>  Look at these, especially the first one:
>
>http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/05/dkukawka_subfs_nomount.html
>http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/05/dkukawka_hal_mountpoints.html
>
>  I am using SuSE 9.3, and am having trouble with hotplugging.  Actually, I 
>have installed 9.3 on one partition, but am actually using 8.2 .  I use my 
>USB card reader a lot, and under 9.3, it only seems to work if it is present 
>at boot up, and only until the first time I remove it.  I am thinking of 
>buying 10.0 in the hope that the problem has been fixed.  It is not clear 
>from anything I've seen on the list whether it has.
>
>  Peter Taylor
>

Peter,

The first link looks like the info I need. Thank you! 
I'm not doing any hotplugging so I cannot say whether Suse 10
works there. I just upgraded from Suse 8.1 to 10, and although
there are some changes and quirks, I like it!

Matt