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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD *NEEDS* CD-ROM???
Date: 12 Nov 1995 16:52:42 +0100
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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Message-ID: <48558a$j7p@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de>
References: <roy-0911952159370001@adept.cts.com> <covell.816017195@stripe.Colorado.EDU>
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covell@stripe.Colorado.EDU (Paul Covell) writes:
>roy@adeptsolutions.com (Roy Lovejoy) writes:
>>I got thrown the message cd9660: /dev/cd0a device not configured.
>>(no cd in the drive)
>>I take it that something is trying to mount the cd regardless if there actually
>>that I can comment out this auto mount attempt?? (and leave the mounting
>>of the cd to when *I* want to mount it?)
>>Please e-mail *AND* post.
>>Thanks
>While it is a less than perfect solution, this is how I solved that problem:
>in /etc/fstab, there is an entry for your cdrom drive. Comment it out.
>/etc/rc calls mount -a, which tries to mount all the drives in your /etc/fstab
>file. Why it dies when it can't, I'm not sure.
>The reason this is less than perfect is now you will need to type the full
>specs to mount the cdrom (for me, mount -tcd9660 /dev/mcd0a /cdrom).
Better solution: (IMHO)
leave the entry in /etc/fstab (or insert an appropriate entry, if it's not
already there):
/dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro 0 0
then, edit /etc/rc - the line, that reads
mount -a -t nonfs
(i.e. mount all filesystems in /etc/fstab besides the ones of type "nfs")
should be changed into:
mount -a -t nonfs,cd9660
That's all. Type "mount /cdrom" to mount a CD.
Paddy
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