By-pass Autorun

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Sun Feb 22 06:23:27 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 18:16, Charles Howse wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> In Windows, I can hold down the left shift key (I think), when inserting a CD, 
> and that will by-pass the autorun function.
> 
> That doesn't work in FC1.
> 
> I don't see anything in man autorun.
> I Googled for 'Fedora autorun' and didn't find anything useful.
> I would have searched the list archives, had they been available.
> 
> Is there a way to temporarily by-pass Autorun in FC1?
> 
> - -- 
> Charles Howse

If you're using the Gnome desktop you could always turn off the
automount options in Preferences->CD Properties.  I personally don't
know of a keyboard shortcut to disable it momentarily. I didn't see
anything similar in KDE although there probably is a way to do it there
also.

Wayne Steenburg





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