DVD, not in fstab, but still works - Why?
 

I have two drives in my PC, a DVD-ROM on IDE1/secondary, and a CD RW on IDE/master.
I just installed Slackware 10.1 from a magazines cover DVD. The installation went fine. After a few reboots (no problems - just normal on/offs, as I don't leave it running when I'm not there) I browsed the DVD - no problems. I can even play a movie or audio cd through xine. I know audio CDs do not get mounted, but data DVDs should, I guess.
But when I was looking in fstab, there was no entry for the DVD. There is an entry for the CD RW, /dev/hdc, mounted to /mnt/cdrom, but nothing for the DVD.
When I was using SuSE (various releases between 8.1 and 9.2) there was always an fstab entry.
I haven't tried a data CD int he crive yet, though...

How come?

Slackware by default recognizes the drive you install from. It recognizes your DVD drive as you used is for installation. You would have to edit /etc/fstab to use the other drive.

/dev/hdc must be the dvd drive recognized.

Tux