Subject: Re: Automatic mount of cdroms

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 96 13:13 BST

Martin Schulze writes ("Automatic mount of cdroms"):
...
> normally cdrom drives are marked with `noauto' in the /etc/fstab file
> to provide a smooth booting process.  Does Debian provide a tool that
> regularily tries to mount the cdrom drive?  If not, I would be happy
> to contribute with one and its manpage.
> 
> I'm not sure to which package it then should belong.  The cron
> package?  Another base package?  A package of it's own?  I won't do
> that, just ad an option to one of the base packages.

I don't immediately have an opinion on whether it should have its own
package.

However, things should not be mounted automatically by default.

Also, you need to think how things get unmounted.

Is amd going to be of any use here ?

Ian.

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From: Dominik Kubla <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 16:09:09 +0200

> Is amd going to be of any use here ?

Yes.  I will include this as an option for the configscript of the
release for Debian 1.2

Dominik

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From: "Peter Tobias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:02:52 +0200 (MET DST)

> Yes.  I will include this as an option for the configscript of the

BTW: you can find a package called "automount" in the Incoming
directory of sunsite.unc.edu. It can automount cdroms and normal
floppy drives.

Thanks,

Peter

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