From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 11:38:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8657D37B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.88.245]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001010181723.CERI27285.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:17:23 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9AIHL701883; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:17:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:17:20 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Wyatt Banks Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom mounting Message-ID: <20001010191720.B252@parish> References: <20001010175707.A252@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from banksw@sunyit.edu on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:33:08PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:33:08PM -0400, Wyatt Banks wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:56:08PM -0400, Wyatt Banks wrote: > > > When I have my cdrom mount listed in fstab, my computer will not boot > > > correctly without a cdrom in the drive. With a cdrom in the drive, it > > > boots and I can access it fine. Does this sound correct? > > > I thought I read something about a limitation being that the cd must be in > > > the drive to mount it, or something similar, but can't find where I read > > > it. I spent all day looking in 'The Complete FreeBSD' and reading man > > > pages but can't find what I think I read. > > > Can anyone help? > > > > Sounds like you don't have ``noauto'' in the fstab entry: > > > > /dev/cd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > > > Note that there are no spaces before or after the comma. > > > > > Thanks > > > banksw@sunyit.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > 4.4 - The number of the Beastie > > ________________________________________________________________ > > 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > > 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark > > mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > > > for some reason, mine won't work if I include the command and noauto. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "include the command", but this should work even if you comment out the entry in /etc/fstab: # mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom With an entry (un-commented) in /etc/fstab you should just have to do: # mount /cdrom Note that you must be root to mount it. The ``noauto'' option merely stops FreeBSD attempting to mount it at boot. If there is anything wrong with the entry in /etc/fstab then you should get some kind of error/warning when you try to use ``mount /cdrom''. Just one thing; you aren't trying to mount an audio CD are you? > I copied my original fstab file in case I messed it up when I first read how > to use fstab. I just verified that the original line in fstab was: > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > I am able to mount it from the shell, or using fstab with device acd0a or > acd0c, but if I include the comma and noauto in fstab, it does not seem to > mount my cdrom. > Any other possibilities of what could be wrong with it? > -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message