On Thu, 20 May 1999, LENGARD Pascal OCISI wrote:
> fstab can contains anything that mount knows of (man mount)
> if you want you can put there your disk partitions, cdroms, zip drives
> ... /proc ... nfs ... EVERYTHING.
> aand if you prefer you can make it empty and mount everything from
> /etc/rc.d scripts ... (ugly !!)
>
> with redhat (and possibly others) /etc/fstab is build during first
> installation with all devices detected (cdrom included). maybe your
> slackware thing has no cdrom in it because it did this incorrectly ...
>
> pascal
>
My cdrom was not properly detected at install. It actually maps in as hdc,
since it's the third ide device in the system, but for some reason, by default,
Redhat (maybe ALL versions of Linux, don't know...) assumes it's hdb, which
will NOT work in many situations (like mine...)
