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Re: /dev/cdrom mounting



On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:19:54PM -0700, J Merritt wrote:
> I have been using Debian for about 2 months now after having used
> Mandrakelinux 10.1 for a much longer time. In Mandrake, the
> DVD/CD-writer will automount and auto-unmount whenever you insert or
> eject DVD/CD media. It has other issues, however.
>  
Welcome to the wonderful world of Debian.

> I like the way k3b works on the Debian side. Better than how it works
> on the Mandrake side. In Debian, however, I'm having a problem that
> I'm sure has a simple solution. I do not have automount enabled. I'm
> assuming it's something you do with /etc/fstab (?). So what I do is
> shell out, su, and 'mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom'. This works fine
> for reading a single CD or DVD. However, after I enter the command, it
> will not allow me to 'umount /dev/cdrom'. It keeps saying the device
> is busy. What do I need to do to get it to eject the media? How can I
> enable automounting the way it does it in Mdk? Or is it part of the
> same issue?
>  
Do you have automount installed?  I don't think that it is installed by
default.

-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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