From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 18:17:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D12737B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 63057 invoked by uid 100); 11 Oct 2000 01:17:21 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.49057.601985.803281@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:17:21 -0500 (CDT) To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thank you In-Reply-To: <8847946@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.