[newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?
REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc is no longer accessable through Linux unless I reboot. WTF? Isn't there some automounting feature that will take care of this? What about Supermount? What IS that, anyway? I'm sorry to rant, but I'm just blown away by the fact that some sort of automounting isn't already built-in. If anyone knows some options for me, give 'em to me. I'm eager to learn here... -Lawrence Winstead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?
Okay, okay. We're getting somewhere here. :) Thanks for clearing that up for me, Derek. In the Mount section of the Mandrake Control Center, I enabled Supermount, and disabled user and noauto. I rebooted, and now I can just eject the disc and it'll auto- unmount it for me. Great! But here's the next part: In RedHat, they've got it setup by default to open the cdrom mount point when a disc is inserted. Do you know how to set it to do that? Or will that conflict with Supermount in some way? Thanks! -Lawrence 10/17/2002 10:34:14 AM, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ermm Supermount does do what you ask... If Supermount is enabled you do not have to mount/unmount removable media (In fact if you DO try mounting it, it will screw up the supermount operation) What you are probably experiencing is the issue that if ANY application has a file open on a removable media, then you CANNOT unmount it, or remove it. So if you have konqueror file manager open at /mnt/cdrom, then you have to close konqueror before it will respond to the eject button. You just have to be a little bit disciplined about closing applications before removing media. Sorry but that is just the way it is at the moment. Not everything about Linux is better than Windows :( derek On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 4:09 pm, Flux wrote: REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc is no longer accessable through Linux unless I reboot. WTF? Isn't there some automounting feature that will take care of this? What about Supermount? What IS that, anyway? I'm sorry to rant, but I'm just blown away by the fact that some sort of automounting isn't already built-in. If anyone knows some options for me, give 'em to me. I'm eager to learn here... -Lawrence Winstead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?
Flux wrote: REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc is no longer accessable through Linux unless I reboot. WTF? Isn't there some automounting feature that will take care of this? What about Supermount? What IS that, anyway? I'm sorry to rant, but I'm just blown away by the fact that some sort of automounting isn't already built-in. If anyone knows some options for me, give 'em to me. I'm eager to learn here... It seems posts on mounting fall into two categories: How can I get my drives to mount automatically? and I hate supermount, how do I get rid of it?! The easy way to get your removable media to work automatically is to go to the Control Center then click Mount Points and the medium you want (floppy or CD drive). Click Options then check the Supermount mox and uncheck the User box. If that doesn't work (and it usually does) you need to edit your /etc/fstab file - see recent postings on this. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
