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Re: automounting CD-ROM

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Sat Nov 23 15:06:13 1996

Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 15:02:06 -0500
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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>        I've a Panasonic 8x IDE CD-ROM drive, and Redhat/Intel 4.0
>recognized it as /dev/hdc.  I would like Redhat to automount my CD-ROM drive
>under /cdrom everytime Linux starts (currently I've to mount it manully:
>mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t iso9660).  Could anyone please give me a hint on
>how to go about this?  Thanks!
add the item to your /etc/fstab file...

something like this. you'll have to check more as to
what the fstab file looks like for proper formatting.
I think there is an X windows tool called filetool
or something that you can do this with easier...

/dev/hdc	/cdrom		iso9660	ro,auto

Darron


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