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Date:      Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:24:34 -0600
From:      "Derrill \"Kisc\" Guilbert" <Derrill@DaemonNews.org>
To:        "Johnson David" <djohnson@acuson.com>, "Newbies" <newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Stupid Question
Message-ID:  <AKEMKJAFALINPLIGDNACGEPGCBAA.Derrill@DaemonNews.org>
In-Reply-To: <200206131404.48686.djohnson@acuson.com>

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| At first I was assuming that you wanted to know how to mount a CD
| as a user.
| Then I noticed your domain name. I guess you either already know
| how to do
| that, or know how to find out. If not, ask your boss :-)

Chris is at Usenix, and out of touch atm. Prolly should have asked one of
the Greg Squad before displaying my ignorance though.

|
| My understanding is that you can't get the Solaris behavior. Solaris does
| something called volume management with regards to CDs and floppies. It's
| sort of like automounting but not quite. But you can get most of the same
| behavior using amd, the automounter.

I love that volume management. Solaris has its hangups, but I love that
volume management.

| Now this is going to be very embarassing for you, but there's an
| article on
| this very topic at DaemonNews:
| <http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html>;

But I was plenty embarassed to begin with so no big deal ;)

I mostly do store stuff at this point, haven't done more than glance through
the latest ezine. Oh that's february. Hmm. New excuse!

Parenthetically, Chris hired me because I have done some BSD and some
Solaris and some Linux, and I agreed to work with him because ... a company
that exists solely for BSD! SWEET! and now all I run is Windows because the
stupid UPS shipping program is Windows only. He gets to run OS X and FreeBSD
and whatever he's in the mood for, but I'm stuck on freakin' XP. What a
world.

Anyway, I kept trying variations on "mount cdrom" because there was the
vaguest bit of "it was something like that I'm sure" rolling around in my
head.... then I went and found the Annalise Anderson book, and it is "mount
/cdrom" ... and two minutes later I got several replies with the right man
pages, etc.

I'm a moron, obviously. If any of y'all (y'nz or you'ns for some of you)
have a problem with an order from http://www.bsdmall.com, now you know who
probably screwed it up!

Thanks for all the helpful answers :)

Derrill


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