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Are there any plans to add hardware detection to Source Mage?
How do I make a floppy drive mountable as a regular user but not mount at startup?
How do I get Sourcemage to install with DAC960 support?
To install DAC960 support, you'll need to install a kernel patch and recompile. Check the information available here. Google searches may provide further information, if that page doesn't get you far enough.
As of 2006-09-20, the URL above is dead. Someone with knowledge about DAC960 should enhance this section.
Are there any plans to add hardware detection to Source Mage?
Yes. See [HardwareDetection] for more information.
How do I make a floppy drive mountable as a regular user but not mount at startup?
Instead of defaults in /etc/fstab, use noauto,user.
If /etc/mtab is linked to /proc/mounts, use noauto,users.
Explanation:
noauto means that mounting is ignored on mount -a (usually run during startup).
user allows the user that mounted, or root to unmount.
users allows anybody to mount and unmount regardless of which user mounted.
If the link exists from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts, mount can't write to /etc/mtab to update which user mounted it, so user will not work correctly. If /etc/mtab is a regular file, user will work fine.
If you want to fix the /proc/mounts issue to make /etc/mtab be a regular file on a running system, read the LFS Hint on mtab.
As of 2007-05-30, the URL above is dead.