Em Seg, 2002-06-17 às 02:07, Dan Jacobson escreveu: > I have two CDROM drives. This is apparently not noticed upon debian > woody installation. Swifteax. Neateaux. I suppose the distributions > of the pros consider that a personal issue or something. > > OK, so I must do this myself. OK, I make a link in /dev from hdd to > cdrom2 then I make a directory in /, then I make a entry in > /etc/fstab. Is the user supposed to do all this by hand? > > Also what is the importance of noauto in fstab? Doesn't that just > cause the user to have to issue a mount command if he hasn't since > last reboot, and ha wants to use the cdrom? Or perhaps the > maintainers don't power off like me every day e.g. lightning storms > and sleepy time. >
You need to issue a mount command everytime you use a new CD and an umount before you remove it. Or do you have only 2 CD-ROMs one for each drive? > By the way, my main form of exercise during my month long debian > adaptation learning experience is marching up and back to my cdrom > drives, ten meters away, during each dselect, aptitude installation > session. I don't suppose there is any way to tell it that I have two > cdroms so I can put two cd's in at once? Have you a bad internet connection? Usually some floppies or 1 CD is largely enough for installing debian. Michel. > -- > http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]