Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?

2002-10-17 Thread Robin Turner
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

Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?

2002-10-17 Thread Flux
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

[newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?

2002-10-17 Thread Flux
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 i