2008/6/28 Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Eduardo,
>
> I have checked the content of fstab and this is the result:
>
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda2 none swap s w 0 0
> /dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
>
> Honestly, at first when i installed gentoo,i just installed it by using the
> handbook and i thought it will be no problem. Actually this is my first time
> using Linux and i never have any experience using it before.
>
> Regards,
> Norman
Norman,
I am glad to know that you have chosen Gentoo as your first contact
with GNU/Linux. First of all, congratulations! having a working Gentoo
system without any previous Linux knowledge is a terrific start!
I assumed that you knew what fstab is and how to modify that file
because it is explained in the Gentoo Handbook, which is the reference
to install this distribution.
As explained in the Gentoo Handbook chapter 8 [1], you manually
created a text file under "/etc" called "fstab". This simple text file
contains all the necessary information to, let's say "auto-mount" your
different devices.
This is my fstab, I post it here as an example:
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/dev/hdc1 /boot ext2
defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hdc3 / reiserfs noatime
0 1
/dev/hdc2 none swap sw
0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user
0 0
/dev/floppy/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw,user
0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/RIC vfat
defaults,noatime,user 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/ZERO vfat defaults,noatime,user
0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/USB auto noauto,rw,user
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /proc proc defaults
0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs
nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Usually, adding this
"/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user
0 0"
should be enough to have your cd-rom/cd-rw/dvd working =).
If that does not work, then let us know and see if we can figure out
something else. If it does work, then great! go on enjoying Gentoo
Linux.
You learn a lot using Gentoo. Is the only distribution that gave m the
chance to learn a lot about Linux. It is very stable and flexible, you
always have control over your own system, that is very important.
Regards,
Ricardo.
(Richard)
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8
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