Re: Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:32 -0500, Scott Karlin wrote: > Interesting. I'm a WindowMaker (and sometimes KDE) user so I've > always handled mounts myself. It also works in KDE. > If I were to switch to gnome, how is the "local" user determined? My > xorg.conf is set up to have three separate X S

Re: Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:32:49 -0500 Scott Karlin wrote: > Interesting. I'm a WindowMaker (and sometimes KDE) user so I've always > handled mounts myself. I'm not a big fan of gnome or KDE either, and for dealing with mounts, rather than doing them manually, I got ambitious and whipped out a littl

Re: Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Scott Karlin
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Mount points for CD-ROM From: Scott Karlin To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 02/05/2009 03:08 PM I was surprised that I had to create mount points and use an explicit mount to read a CD-ROM: # mkdir /media/cdrom # mount -t

Re: Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:21:47 -0600 > Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> You do not >> have to create any directories or issue any command line arguments for >> this to happen. > > But you do have to wonder where the hell it actually mounted > it as the one thing nautilus won't

Re: Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:21:47 -0600 Michael Cronenworth wrote: > You do not > have to create any directories or issue any command line arguments for > this to happen. But you do have to wonder where the hell it actually mounted it as the one thing nautilus won't tell you without water boarding i

Re: Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Scott Karlin wrote: > I was surprised that I had to create mount points and use an explicit > mount to read a CD-ROM: > > # mkdir /media/cdrom > # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom > > Is this typical? Is there some RPM that creates the mount points? > > I don't mind becoming root to do

Re: Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Mount points for CD-ROM From: Scott Karlin To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 02/05/2009 03:08 PM I was surprised that I had to create mount points and use an explicit mount to read a CD-ROM: # mkdir /media/cdrom # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media

Re: Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Scott Karlin
On 02/05/09 16:08, Scott Karlin wrote: I was surprised that I had to create mount points and use an explicit mount to read a CD-ROM: # mkdir /media/cdrom # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom Is this typical? Is there some RPM that creates the mount points? I don't mind becoming root to

Mount points for CD-ROM

2009-02-05 Thread Scott Karlin
I was surprised that I had to create mount points and use an explicit mount to read a CD-ROM: # mkdir /media/cdrom # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom Is this typical? Is there some RPM that creates the mount points? I don't mind becoming root to do the mount -- I was just surprised the