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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CDROM drive access @ boot Date: 2 Mar 1997 22:39:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5fcvil$jd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3314B951.41C67EA6@javanet.com.nospam> <3317280D.2F1CF0FB@freebsd.org> <33178CC3.41C67EA6@javanet.com.nospam> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36437 "John D. Szumowski" <harpo@javanet.com.nospam> wrote: > I'm running 2.1.5...and what's puzzling me is that I *do* have the > "noauto" option in /etc/fstab: > /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > Any ideas? You mean, you'd like to prevent it from even looking there at device probe time? That's impossible. OTOH, apart from a little message saying ``No disk in drive'' or such, nothing bad should happen. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)