[101318] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Newibie: Mounting/ unmounting CDroms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bsc@klondike.ml.org)
Wed Nov 25 14:54:17 1998
From: bsc@klondike.ml.org
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:53:13 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <365C5CBF.57B27814@iname.com>; from Jan Carlson on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:38:39PM -0500
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If you wish all users on the system to be able to use them, place the
aliases below into /etc/bashrc. If you wish only specific users to be
able to use these aliases, place them in ~/.bashrc.
Blair.
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:38:39PM -0500, Jan Carlson wrote:
> steinbr@mediaone.net wrote:
>
> > In Windoze 95 I can take out and put in CDs at will. In Linux it appears
> > that I have to mount and umount each CD. So I have setup an alias to do
> > both of these. I have two questions.
> >
> > 1. An Alias seem to only last for the session., Can I put them into a
> > script file that will load every time I log on? If, so where should this
> > file go and from where should it be executed?
>
> Assuming your CD is an ATAPI/IDE as secondary master,
>
> alias out="eject -u /dev/hdc"
> alias in="mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
>
> And install the eject rpm from the RedHat CD.
>
> Then type in and out to your hearts content.
> People were having trouble with the automounting packages.
> Maybe they work now.
>
>
> --
>
> Jan Carlson
> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
> Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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