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Article #57466Re: Newbie question on cdrom
From: Barry
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 00:00
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That worked perfectly, thanks. Regards Barry Thorfinn <thorfinn@zip.com.au> wrote in article <52ijn6$4l9@the-fly.zip.com.au>... > In article <01bbacde$ac36a480$3b39868b@default>, "Barry" wrote: > >I have been trying to figure out how to change cds in Slackware.. > >It automatically mounts the cd, but doesn't detect when I change it.. > >when I tried mount/umount, it said it wasn't in fstab. > >When I added it to fstab, it seemed to work but took a good minute to mount > >and again to do an ls. > >The fstab entry says /hdc /cdrom iso9660 defaults 1 1. > > It should say: > > /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,user 0 0 > > Or: > > /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev 0 0 > > if you don't want users to be able to mount cdroms. > > >Any ideas are much appreciated. > > Now, as to why it is so slow, I dunno... Mounting a cd always requires > use of mount/umount, but it shouldn't take an entire minute. > > Later, > > Thorf > > -- > -- <a href="http://www.zip.com.au/~thorfinn"> thorfinn@zip.com.au </a> > "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, > lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of > their C programs." > -- Robert Firth > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,36bc13356f0fe0ac X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: "Barry" <hammers@poboxes.com> Subject: Re: Newbie question on cdrom Date: 1996/09/28 Message-ID: <01bbad4a$eea81a80$1639868b@default> X-Deja-AN: 185840217 references: <01bbacde$ac36a480$3b39868b@default> <52ijn6$4l9@the-fly.zip.com.au> newsgroups: aus.computers.linux