it'll just complain about not having a disk in the drive and refuse to mount On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Geoff Shang wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, dannyboy wrote: > > > My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux is on /dev/hda5. How is > > a cdrom accessed with linux? Do I need to mount that drive? Is there a > > way to fix it so I do not have to mount the floppy after logging on all > > the time? > > To answer your auto-mounting question, you place an entry in /etc/fstab. > This will also allow you to type for example: > > mount /floppy > > Here is my floppy drive's entry in my fstab: > > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto 0 0 > > the noauto tells linux not to mount it automatically. If you want it to > mount automatically, remove the noauto specification. Keep in mind however > that you may not have a floppy disk in the drive and I don't know what > happens if it tries to automatically mount a disk that's not there. > > ?For more info on fstab,type 'man fstab'. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
