Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:29 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Nader Mirzaee wrote:
>
>> > Nader Mirzaee wrote:
>> >> Hello all
>> >>
>> >> i seem to miss one line in the fstab in my FC5 machine . my cdrom
>> >> drive doesn't function in linux .this is my fstab:
>> >>
>> >> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3
>> >> defaults 1 1
>> >> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3
>> >> defaults 1 2
>> >> devpts /dev/pts devpts
>> >> gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>> >> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs
>> >> defaults 0 0
>> >> proc /proc proc
>> >> defaults 0 0
>> >> sysfs /sys sysfs
>> >> defaults 0 0
>> >> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap
>> >> defaults 0 0
>> >> /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs
>> >> ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
>> >>
>> >> what should i add to it ?
>> >>
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>> >> PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.
>> > Fstab doesn't handle CD-rom in FC5. This is the job of hald I
>> believe.
>> > -Dan
>> >
>>
>> That's fine but I had no CD drive until I changed fstab on both FC-5
>> computers here?
>>
>> Obviously there's something going on that's not obvious to me ...
>>
>> Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia w2bod
>>
>>
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>> could you tell me more about what you "changed"!
>>
>>
> Yes I added:
>
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto defaults 0 0
>
> and made a directory:
>
> /media/cdrecorder
>
> However this may not be the correct way to deal with the problem, it was
> just my solution.
>
This is the whole point . You should not have to do that in FC5.
What function of CD access do you not see without that line in fstab?
I don't recall the precise sequence of events but no doubt I attempted
to "mount /dev/hdc" and the cd to "/media/cdrecorder" as I am
accustomed
to doing since FC4 and trying to look at a directory listing ...
I had other odd things happen with this FC5 installation and thought it
was merely related to those peculiarities? In fact I did the
installation twice since it did not offer me a chance to select the
applications I wanted? I had installed FC5 from the same DVD on another
computer via my LAN connection while this one ran FC4 and that went as
expected, a normal install without problems.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia w2bod