Re: IBM T23 - DVD & Floppy Drives help?

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 16:30 28 Feb 2003, dchartrand scclab com <dchartrand scclab com> wrote:
| 1) Currently I only have : /mnt/cdrom : the cd-rom in question is actually a DVD
| drive. I would like to have a : /mnt/dvd : directory. Also, i am missing :
| /mnt/floppy : which is a hotswap device that is not usually installed, but on
| occasion is necessary.  How can I get RH8 to auto configure these devices? If
| autoconfig is not available, what is the best way to manually configure this myself?

I use the automounter.
Mount /mnt config file reads:

	C		-fstype=vfat,ro		:/dev/C
	D		-fstype=vfat,umask=000	:/dev/D
	archive		-soft,intr,ro		shot:/StorNext/Archive
	cdrom		-fstype=iso9660,ro	:/dev/cdrom
	cdrom		-fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev	:/dev/cdrom
	cdrom2		-fstype=iso9660,ro	:/dev/cdrom2
	cf		-fstype=vfat,umask=000	:/dev/cf
	dvd		-fstype=udf,ro,nosuid,nodev:/dev/dvd
	dvdext2		-fstype=ext2		:/dev/dvd
	dvdram		-fstype=ext2,nosuid,nodev:/dev/dvdram
	dvdramudf	-fstype=udf		:/dev/dvdram
	e2floppy	-fstype=ext2		:/dev/fd0
	floppy		-fstype=auto		:/dev/fd0
	nfs					:/nfs
	zip		-fstype=ext2,nosuid,nodev:/dev/zip

Then you just need suitable symlinks in /dev for /dev/dvd etc, pointing at
the appropriate real devices.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs zip com au    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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