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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:33:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   thank you
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010101530170.14536-100000@demeter>
In-Reply-To: <20001010191720.B252@parish>

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> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "include the command", but this
> should work even if you comment out the entry in /etc/fstab:
> 
> 	# mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom
> 
> With an entry (un-commented) in /etc/fstab you should just have to do:
> 
> 	# mount /cdrom
> 
> Note that you must be root to mount it.
> 
> The ``noauto'' option merely stops FreeBSD attempting to mount it at boot.
> If there is anything wrong with the entry in /etc/fstab then you should get
> some kind of error/warning when you try to use ``mount /cdrom''.
>  

so the cdrom is not automatically mounted at boot even with the entry in
fstab.  Interesting.

Thank you VERY much for helping me clear my understanding of this up. :-)



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