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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!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD *NEEDS* CD-ROM??? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 05:18:57 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 9 Message-ID: <30A35141.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <roy-0911952159370001@adept.cts.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Roy Lovejoy <roy@adeptsolutions.com> In 2.1 this is handled by the new "noauto" flag. The CD isn't mounted until you explicitly say "mount /cdrom" (or wherever you have the mount point set) but you can still leave the entry in /etc/fstab so you don't have to specify the whole thing. We were going to introduce another flag "opt" for saying "try to mount it but if you fail, treat it as optional" but we kinda didn't get to it in time. We'll shoot for this in 2.1.1 and 2.2-CURRENT. -- Jordan