From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 26 15:52:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14572 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14552 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:52:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id JAA15461; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:52:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma015454; Fri, 27 Mar 98 09:51:57 +1000 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA11979 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:51:53 +1000 Received: from scitec.com.au (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA125456309; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:51:49 +1100 Message-Id: <351AEA16.AF290422@scitec.com.au> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:51:50 +1100 From: John Saunders Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: One step forward.... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > > I spent three full days trying different things, whining to the newsgroup > > ...FreeBSD.Misc, and combing the archives before I ran across a line that said > > the /CD-ROM was a separate file system and had to be mounted. I mounted it and > > boom I could read my CD. > > Ooohh, isn't it awful when that happens, slog, slog, lots of helpful advice, > and it turns out to be something so "simple and obvious"... to everyone else! I run the KDE desktop on which I have setup a CD icon on the desktop. So now I simply click on the icon and it auto-mounts the CD for me, then gives me a file browser pointing to the CD. To unmount I have to right click the icon and select unmount though. KDE is in the ports collection and is well worth the time to set up. I also seem to recall a while ago that it's possible to configure the NFS automounter "amd" to work with a CDROM. So basically you would cd into /cdrom and "amd" would notice this and automatically mount the CD for you. Once you stop using the CD for some timeout period it would unmount the CD again. But I believe that getting it going is big magic given the lack of amd information. The true power of Unix is that all these things are possible. The "problem" with unix is that they are not enabled by default (to retain traditional operation). Hopefully something like KDE will come along and make a difference. Cheers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au (Work) | ,--_|\ | mailto:john@nlc.net.au (Home) | / Oz \ | http://www.nlc.net.au/~john/ | \_,--\_/ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61 2 9428 9563 Fax +61 2 9428 9933 | v | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message