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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:57:07 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cdrom mounting
Message-ID:  <20001010175707.A252@parish>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010091953420.502-100000@demeter>; from banksw@sunyit.edu on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:56:08PM -0400
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010091953420.502-100000@demeter>

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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:56:08PM -0400, Wyatt Banks wrote:
> When I have my cdrom mount listed in fstab, my computer will not boot
> correctly without a cdrom in the drive.  With a cdrom in the drive, it
> boots and I can access it fine.  Does this sound correct?
> I thought I read something about a limitation being that the cd must be in
> the drive to mount it, or something similar, but can't find where I read
> it.  I spent all day looking in 'The Complete FreeBSD' and reading man
> pages but can't find what I think I read.
> Can anyone help?

Sounds like you don't have ``noauto'' in the fstab entry:

/dev/cd0c      /cdrom     cd9660  ro,noauto     0       0

Note that there are no spaces before or after the comma.

> Thanks
> banksw@sunyit.edu
> 
> 
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