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Re: what if I have a 2nd cdrom drive?



Em Seg, 2002-06-17 às 02:07, Dan Jacobson escreveu:
> I have two CDROM drives.  This is apparently not noticed upon debian
> woody installation.  Swifteax. Neateaux. I suppose the distributions
> of the pros consider that a personal issue or something.
> 
> OK, so I must do this myself.  OK, I make a link in /dev from hdd to
> cdrom2 then I make a directory in /, then I make a entry in
> /etc/fstab.  Is the user supposed to do all this by hand?
> 
> Also what is the importance of noauto in fstab?  Doesn't that just
> cause the user to have to issue a mount command if he hasn't since
> last reboot, and ha wants to use the cdrom?  Or perhaps the
> maintainers don't power off like me every day e.g. lightning storms
> and sleepy time.
> 

You need to issue a mount command everytime you use a new CD
and an umount before you remove it.
Or do you have only 2 CD-ROMs one for each drive?

> By the way, my main form of exercise during my month long debian
> adaptation learning experience is marching up and back to my cdrom
> drives, ten meters away, during each dselect, aptitude installation
> session.   I don't suppose there is any way to tell it that I have two
> cdroms so I can put two cd's in at once?

Have you a bad internet connection? Usually some floppies or 1 CD is
largely enough for installing debian.

Michel.

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