Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:17:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thank you Message-ID: <14819.49057.601985.803281@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <8847946@toto.iv>
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Mark Ovens writes: > 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). That last bit isn't quit true. Solaris (2.6 and later on sparc, at least) comes with an automounter that automatically mounts cdroms, so they work like Windows systems. Some versions of Linux have a "supermounter" that does the same things. About the only nice thing I've seen them do is launch the cd player when I insert an audio cdrom before CD burners were common. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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