Arthur S. Alexion on Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:20:20 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting


On Tuesday 11 June 2002 12:31 am, Art Clemons wrote:
> >> # ln -s hdb /dev/cdrom
> >
> > I should do this as root, right?  And then do I have to change any
> > permissions in order to allow non-root users to mount it?
>
> Actually, you can settle the mounting  problem in /etc/fstab
>
> A line similar to:
>
> /dev/hdb  /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,users,noauto,exec   1  0
>
> would allow any user to mount your cdrom and unmount it, 

Art,

This is one of the first things that I tried, having learned a little 
about fstab in setting up an external zip drive on another machine.  
Doesn't work since there is something wrong with the ide-cd module.  
Thanks, anyway.

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