Re: [gentoo-user] reading data cd/dvd

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 04:05:29AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote

> My note from recently installing Gentoo on a newly built machine :
> "for DVD drive, use BLK_DEV_SR to create /dev/sr0 ".
> Use 'make menuconfig' + search to find that string, then set the option.
>
> BTW I try to do things as simply as possible :
> using Fluxbox + Openrc, I mount  /dev/sr0  on  /mnt/dvd  (as root),
> then (as user) 'cd /mnt/dvd' & use Most/Mupdf/Feh/etc to look at the files.
> Quick, effective, foolproof ... (smile)

  In my /etc/fstab, I have...

/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,users,ro          0 0
/dev/sr0                /mnt/dvd    auto     noauto,users,ro          0 0

...to handle the 2 devices on my system.  The corresponding lines will
probably be different on your system.  The advantage is that I can mount
and umount as a regular user.  BTW, I run ICEWM.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications