FC6, CD-Roms, can't mount

Douglas Phillipson phillipd at oem.doe.gov
Fri Dec 8 21:11:06 UTC 2006



Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 02:48 +0100, Tomas Larsson wrote:
>> I finally got it mounted manually.
>> But why, on my FC4 server the cd is automounted, why does it not work under
>> FC6
>>
> In FC4 you had lines in fstab like:
> /dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       auto
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> 
> The managed meant automatic mounting. FC5 and FC6 developers had what
> they thought was a different but "not necessarily better" idea. Fedora
> is supposed to be a testbed so different ideas get tried. No lines about
> cdroms in /etc/fstab. So the mounting behavior is different.
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> 

So what's the resolution on this CD/DVD mounting issue.  I hope it's not 
a manual mount of the device.  Haven't we gone beyond that yet?  Am I 
missing something?

Loving Fedora...

Doug P




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