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Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy



 |Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:59:05 +0100 (MET)
 |From: Jonas Bofjall <job@abc.se>

 |On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Hayao Nakahara wrote:
 |
 |> Yes you can.
 |> The followings are some of my /etc/adm/amd.xxx files.
 |> On such configuration, I can 
 |> 	mount cdrom by accessing "/l/cd",
 |> 	mount floppy with ext2 format by "/l/fd"
 |> 	mount floopy with fat format by "/l/msdos".
 |> and explicitly umount cdrom by "amq -u /l/cd", and so forth.
 |
 |What I and many other DOS -> Linux migrates wishes for, is a driver with
 |which I can remove my floppy at any time. This would require that the
 |floppy never is write cached. Once I heard of a program called SuperMount
 |which could do this, but I never got it to work (it was old, and required
 |kernel patching). What I really don't understand is if your amd stuff here
 |is a solution to this problem or not?

NO. I always remove my floppy after "sync; amd -u /l/msdos" etc.
-- 
Hayao Nakahara
Hiroshima University



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