Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:31:27 -0800 From: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I programatically eject a live cd? Message-ID: <1131820287.3416.23.camel@home-desk> In-Reply-To: <44oe4qorwz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1131744339.21074.5.camel@home-desk> <44oe4qorwz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:35 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> writes: > > > I was looking for an answer to this question. Since my CD is actually > > the running file system(is mounted), I cannnot eject it while the system > > is running. > > > > So is there a way to do this that y'all have found, or do I have to > > change my CD to run from memory(RAMDISK) instead of running from the CD. > > You want to eject your running root filesystem? > That's a *really* crazy idea. > Why do you want to do that? > Well, I don't "want" to eject my running root filesystem, but I need to have the CD eject on a reboot/halt of the system. So, is there a "nicer" way of doing this? Sean
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