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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Subject: Re: NFS and CDROM question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.204231.12138@menudo.uh.edu>
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- Organization: University of Houston
- References: <3393@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:42:31 GMT
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- In article <3393@ra.nrl.navy.mil> dean@n5170a.nrl.navy.mil (Dean Clamons)
- writes:
- =>A second question along the same lines is whether there is a way to get
- =>the CDROM to always mount under the same mount point (eg /cdrom) instead
- =>of under a mount point which is related to the name of the disk. The
- =>reason I would like to do this is so that the CDROM can always be mounted
- =>from another system by using the same name (assuming that I can mount it
- =>at all!).
-
- Add and entry to /etc/fstab to make it something like (make sure the entry is
- READ_ONLY!!!). If there is not a disk in the CD-Rom drive apon boot up, it
- will ask you to insert the disk into the drive. Also, this has only worked
- for the NeXTStep Prerelease disks. This does not work for any ISO9600 format
- disks for some strange reason (we wanted to have Exploring Mathematics with
- Mathematica mounted in one of our drives. Caused a panic every time we
- booted):
-
- #
- # DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING
- #
- # This file contains information used to mount local hard disks.
- # Consult your system administration and networking manual
- # for information on adding local disks. Information on the format
- # of entries in this file can also be found in the fstab man page,
- # search for fstab in Digital Librarian.
- #
- /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
- /dev/sd1a /cdrom 4.3 ro,noquota 0 0
-
-
- =>
- =>Your comments would be welcomed.
- =>
- =>--
- =>Dean Clamons
- =>Naval Research Lab
- =>Code 5110
- =>Washington, DC 20375
- =>(202) 767-2384
- =>dean@n5170a.nrl.navy.mil
-
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