Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:55:07 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thank you Message-ID: <20001011225507.A258@parish> In-Reply-To: <14819.49057.601985.803281@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:17:21PM -0500 References: <8847946@toto.iv> <14819.49057.601985.803281@guru.mired.org>
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:17:21PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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, True, but an automounter won't hang if there is no CD in the drive at boot time. Also, isn't the automounter optional (in Solaris anyway)? > 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 -- 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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