How do I automatically mount my cdrom at boot?

Amerist · 04-13-2002, 07:41 AM

I have been having some trouble mounting my CDROM in my laptop, but this morning I finally got access to it. Here's what I typed to mount it:

mount /dev/hdc /cdrom

Now if I type ls I can see the contents of the cd in the drive.

My problem is... fstab.

I edited the entry for the cdrom which used to look like this:

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

and I changed it to look like this:

/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

Now when I reboot the machine using shutdown -r now I still can only see the contents of my cdrom if I manually type in mount /dev/hdc /cdrom

What am I doing wrong, besides working 24/7 as root?

Thymox · 04-13-2002, 07:57 AM

You're not doing anything wrong. Having to mount the CD is the normal way of doing things. There is a utility called supermount that autodetects when a disk is being inserted/ejected and mounts/umounts it appropriately. I'm not sure if it's on thw RH7.2 CDs, so try typing supermount at the command prompt. If nothing happens, then check the above link.

Oh, and I can't be certain 'coz I'm not at my Linux box now, but you're fstab entry looks a little squiffy.

Amerist · 04-13-2002, 08:13 AM

Okay, thanks for clearing that up. I am not sure what might be wrong with my fstab entry. I don't really know much about linux. I just started using it a week ago. I am also not sure what to do with files that end with the .rpm extension. Case in point is supermount-1.0-5cl.noarch.rpm which I downloaded from that link in your previous post. I did try the supermount command but that appears to be an invalid command.

Thanks for your help.

Thymox · 04-13-2002, 08:17 AM

At its simplest, try (as root):
rpm -i supermount-1.0-5cl.noarch.rpm

Oh, BTW, you do know about the su command? You don't actually need to log-in as root, ever. Just log in as a normal user, and when you need to become root, type su root and then type root's password. Once you've done your root business, type exit to return to being a normal user again.

Amerist · 04-13-2002, 02:09 PM

supermount is not compatible with the kernel version included with RH 7.2. I got an error message at boot. Does anyone know of something like supermount that works with redhat ?

Thanks.

Aussie · 04-13-2002, 08:00 PM

Supermount is one of mandrakes additions and even they have problems implementing it in some kernels. Once you have your drive set up so a user can mount it from the CL you can add an icon to the desk top that will mount a cd when you click it.

mikek147 · 04-14-2002, 05:46 AM

You might try the autofs(automount) package. -mk