From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 16:59:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 189D937B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA95054; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:58:55 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:58:55 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Wyatt Banks Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrom mounting Message-ID: <20001010105855.A93332@albury.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from banksw@sunyit.edu on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:56:08PM -0400 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message