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Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> I decided I needed major help with this one - in other words, a |
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> walk-through. |
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> I was working and shoved a CD into my laptop as I do every once in a |
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> while (not that often - I'm happy to use the network 99.99999999999% |
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> of the time). |
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> Well, I stuck it in, and there wasn't any automounter action that I |
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> could see, so I wisely (for me, at least) went to fstab to find this: |
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> |
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>> localhost ~ # cat /etc/fstab |
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>> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 |
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>> /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 |
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>> /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1 |
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>> none /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
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>> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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>> /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,async,user,exec 0 0 |
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> My CD drive wasn't listed. Big surprise. |
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> To be more specific about the hardware I'm using, I'm using a CD |
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> RW/DVD-ROM drive in the docking station to my X40. Here's all the |
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> relevant entries from /dev that could help. |
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> Oops... tried "cat /dev/dvd..." didn't work too well. Started |
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> reading the *whole* contents of the CD. Gotta remember that next |
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> time... |
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> Well, now it complains that no medium is found. However, it looks |
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> like it's listed as /dev/hdc in addition to what I assume are aliases |
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> as /dev/dvd, /dev/cdrom, and /dev/cdrw. |
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> Sorry I can't be more precise, but I'd like some help with sticking |
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> this in fstab so that I can mount the disk and then use it. I'm so |
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> darn inexperienced with this. |
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> There isn't anything from /etc/mtab that could help, either: |
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>> localhost etc # cat mtab |
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>> /dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0 |
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>> proc /proc proc rw 0 0 |
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>> sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 |
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>> udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0 |
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>> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 |
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>> cachedir /lib/splash/cache tmpfs rw 0 0 |
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>> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 |
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>> none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 |
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>> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=85 0 0 |
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> |
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> I'm flummoxed. I don't even know where to begin, since anything I can |
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> try and Google will most likely not be for my system. Any help or |
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> pointers? |
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> |
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A line in /etc/fstab like this: |
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/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 |
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Should let access the cd/dvd: |
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(root) # mount /mnt/cdrom |
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(root) # ls /mnt/cdrom |
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If you want users other than root to be able to mount it change |
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'noauto,ro' to 'noauto,user,ro'. |
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Desktops like Gnome and Kde will probably automount the cd once the |
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fstab entry is there (hmmm - been a while since I used either of these, |
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but I thought one of other of them uses a device scan as opposed to |
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using fstab.... but anyway see if the above helps!). |
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If you want to do some reading then try: |
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$ man mount |
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$ man fstab |
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There are non-desktop related packages that will automount media (local |
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and network) - autofs comes to mind as the most well known to me - tho |
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submount might be good. |
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regards |
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Mark |
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