How would you do this under Debian? I looked for rc.local, and don't seem to have one. I have an NTFS partition that I would like to have mounted everytime I boot into Linux. Thanks, Guy At 08:15 PM 12/14/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, under Red Hat there is a soft link for the cdrom in /mnt/cdrom. >So for me I type mount /mnt/cdrom and the drive gets loaded. >The easiest whay to know where your cdrom is to see if it is on the >primary or secondary controler. Typically, the cdrom is the first drive on >the secondary controler which is /dev/hdc. >If you want a drive such as a zip to automatically mount on startup add it >to your /etc/rc.local file if using Red Hat. >For me I enter the line: >mount /mnt/zip100.0/ >in /etc/rc.local, and my zip drive is always loaded on startup. >However, something like a floppy isn't good to load on startup, because it >is unlikely there is a floppy in the drive on startup as with my zip drive. >What you might do is create an alias in your /etc/bashrc file called >floppy, and type that command and it will mount it for you. >For example on my Red Hat box I have an alias line like this: > > >alias loadfd= 'mount /mnt/floppy/' > > > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <mailto:dannyboy at pobox.com>dannyboy >>To: <mailto:speakup at braille.uwo.ca>speakup >>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:46 PM >>Subject: location of cdrom >> >>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? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20011216/7466330a/attachment.html>
