From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 12:33:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.sunyit.edu (mercury.sunyit.edu [150.156.16.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28BDE37B502; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from demeter.sunyit.edu (demeter4.sunyit.edu [150.156.250.9]) by mercury.sunyit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00381; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:33:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (banksw@localhost) by demeter.sunyit.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA14616; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:33:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.sunyit.edu: banksw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:33:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Wyatt Banks X-Sender: banksw@demeter To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: thank you In-Reply-To: <20001010191720.B252@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "include the command", but this > should work even if you comment out the entry in /etc/fstab: > > # mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom > > With an entry (un-commented) in /etc/fstab you should just have to do: > > # mount /cdrom > > Note that you must be root to mount it. > > The ``noauto'' option merely stops FreeBSD attempting to mount it at boot. > If there is anything wrong with the entry in /etc/fstab then you should get > some kind of error/warning when you try to use ``mount /cdrom''. > so the cdrom is not automatically mounted at boot even with the entry in fstab. Interesting. Thank you VERY much for helping me clear my understanding of this up. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message