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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:58:55 +1100
From:      Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au>
To:        Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdrom mounting
Message-ID:  <20001010105855.A93332@albury.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010091953420.502-100000@demeter>; from banksw@sunyit.edu on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:56:08PM -0400
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010091953420.502-100000@demeter>

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Thus spake Wyatt Banks (banksw@sunyit.edu):

> 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.

You probably want to change the options in /etc/fstab. Something like
this:

/dev/acd0c	/cdrom	cd9660	ro,noauto	0	0


Nick

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