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Re: Newbie question on cdrom

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From: Barry
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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Subject: Re: Newbie question on cdrom
Date: 1996/09/28
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