Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:13:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> To: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automounting a CD-ROM Message-ID: <199506081413.KAA06676@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <724*/S=jmrueda/OU=diatel/O=upm/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS> from "Javier Martin Rueda" at Jun 8, 95 03:51:31 pm
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> I want to use amd to automount CD-ROMs.
>
> The idea is that whenever a user inserts a disk in the CD-ROM drive he/she
> doesn't need to be root to mount the filesystem. Instead, the CD-ROM appears
> automagically in /cdrom in read-only mode.
>
> I've never used amd or any other automounter before, and I've been looking at
> the amd and amq man pages, as well as at a PostScript document included in the
> sources of amd in FreeBSD 2.0R, but I haven't found at a first glance how to
> do that.
>
> Can anybody please post an example configuration file for what I pretend?
> Thanks in advance.
We want somthing like this... but it isn't quite that automagic ( sgi has that
but at the cost of pinging the scsi bus every 1 or two seconds yuk! )
what you can have is a directory that they can cd into and if there is a
cdrom there, it will mount it. The problem exists that you cannot change
the type of filesystem that is mounted with out doing some tom-foolery and
using the program filesystem to mount the cd. If somone has as solution to
this it could be very nice indeed ( might be somthing to think about
including in the next release. ) I have not been able to get it to work.
-branson
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