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Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting
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Also, if you want to you can either fix it yourself by making a
directory /cdrom and editing /etc/fstab accordingly or by creating a
symlink /cdrom -> /mnt/cdrom
gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:38:22AM -0400, Art Clemons wrote:
> > I actually originally learned to mount a cdrom on /cdrom, however things
> > and people change. Linux is different from *BSD or Unix in some ways,
> > and that's one of the differences. Slackware, my distro of choice,
> > until recently had /cdrom as the setup of choice, but all too many other
> > distros don't and that can be a problem if other software expects to
> > find your cdrom at /cdrom.
>
> Linux isn't different, RedHat is. (Debian, for instance, does this
> Right.)
>
> If it's not going to be used in the historical, de facto-standard
> way to use /mnt, don't call it /mnt. It's that simple.
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
>
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