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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!bb-data.de!news!mib From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD *NEEDS* CD-ROM??? Date: 13 Nov 1995 10:06:18 GMT Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 17 Message-ID: <MIB.95Nov13110618@laforge.bb-data.de> References: <roy-0911952159370001@adept.cts.com> <covell.816017195@stripe.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: laforge.ppe.bb-data.de In-reply-to: covell@stripe.Colorado.EDU's message of 10 Nov 95 15:26:35 GMT In article <covell.816017195@stripe.Colorado.EDU> covell@stripe.Colorado.EDU (Paul Covell) writes: While it is a less than perfect solution, this is how I solved that problem: in /etc/fstab, there is an entry for your cdrom drive. Comment it out. /etc/rc calls mount -a, which tries to mount all the drives in your /etc/fstab file. Why it dies when it can't, I'm not sure. The reason this is less than perfect is now you will need to type the full specs to mount the cdrom (for me, mount -tcd9660 /dev/mcd0a /cdrom). I've had this same problem, and I've been told there is no other solution as of 2.0.5 than to do what you describe. (I sure hope that there is a noauto flag in 2.1, its lack is a really nuisance in 2.0.5.) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Martin Ibert, BB-DATA GmbH, Brunnenstraße 111, D-13355 Berlin >> e-mail <mib@bb-data.de>, phone +49-30-245-56582, fax +49-30-245-56577 <<