Re: (no subject)

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Bob Freeberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've finally got my first successful load of RH 8.0 up and running!
>
> Being in the MS environment for so many years, it took me an hour to 
> find my floppy drive thru OpenOffice!
>
> But, now I know I need to open a terminal window, and mount /fd0/ and 
> I'm set.
>
> Here's my question.  Is there any boot settings I can make to 
> automatically mount the floppy for all users on boot?  I've looked at 
> fstab, but I can't even figure out how to edit the file, let alone what 
> I should call.

You really don't want to do that.  Unix handles file systems differently
than Windows.  On Windows, as long as the drive isn't being actively
used, you can eject the floppy.  Not so on Unix/Linux.  Once it's
mounted, it must be unmounted to remove the floppy without corrupting
the file system.

It's best to let the users mount and unmount the floppy as needed.  The
commands would be:

	mount /mnt/floppy
	umount /mnt/floppy

That's all you need if it's in /etc/fstab.
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