Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:41:37 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thank you Message-ID: <20001010204137.F252@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010101530170.14536-100000@demeter>; from banksw@sunyit.edu on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:33:50PM -0400 References: <20001010191720.B252@parish> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010101530170.14536-100000@demeter>
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:33:50PM -0400, Wyatt Banks wrote: > > > 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. > No. As someone else explained, if you don't have ``noauto'' then FreeBSD will try to mount the CD at boot and, if there is no CD in the drive, it will not complete the boot (remember; it mounts the CD, not the CD drive) so you would always need to have a CD in the drive when you booted FreeBSD. This is not FreeBSD-specific, all *nixes do this with removable media (the /etc/fstab entry for your floppy, /dev/fd0, also has ``noauto'' for the same reason). > Thank you VERY much for helping me clear my understanding of this up. :-) > You are welcome. -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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