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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:28:52 +0100
From:      "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
To:        "Bruce M. Axtens" <bruce_axtens@yahoo.com.au>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie questions: 2 of a few.
Message-ID:  <e572718c0603080628m5da0e900v3a9b68b3f5924fd1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BF393929-AEAD-11DA-975D-00039350C488@yahoo.com.au>
References:  <BF393929-AEAD-11DA-975D-00039350C488@yahoo.com.au>

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On 3/8/06, Bruce M. Axtens <bruce_axtens@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I've been trying to get FreeBSD 5.4 going on a friend's Celeron and
> have been doing okay ... until now.
>
> Question 1: How do I get automounting of cdroms working? Is it possible
> in KDE or GNOME, when you put in a cd that the icon just appears on the
> desktop (like it does in another OS I could name)?
>
> Question 2: How do I get FreeBSD to automount a USB drive? I have a
> Kingston DataTraveller 128MB usb drive.

The Auto Mounter Daemon will do the job..

Start here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Damd

Then go on here:
http://www.nber.org/amd.html


>
> Thanks in advance.

Hope this helps.

>
> Regards,
> Bruce.
>

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