Hey guys,

I haven't been able to find any solid documentation on this, so I hope one of you knows how to do this.

I remember when I was using Mandrake in the beginning, there was a feature that I really liked, and I haven't been able to figure out how to do it in Slackware. Whenever I placed a cd into one of my drives, it seemed like it would automount it, and a CD icon would appear on my desktop. I could click on the icon, and it would open up a browser window of the contents of that CD. I think the mac os does this too?

Anywhoo, right now I just have 2 icons on my desktop that are links to the devices /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 (cd burner and dvd rom with scsi emulation), but they are always on my desktop. Double clicking them mounts them, and opens a browser. This is VERY close, but not quite there yet.

Has anyone accomplished what I am trying to do?

Thanks!

Murray

ok, i'm almost there.

after doing some digging, i found a supermount patch for kernel 2.6.5 here:

http://warder.ath.cx:81/projects.php

there is an install script for that patch that updates the kernel.

after running the update, I found a supermount howto here:

http://reviewed.homelinux.org/howtos/supermount/

following the howto, i was able to get supermount working. thanks!

BUT. I still have not been able to accomplish my original goal.

I would like to be able to have the CD icons appear when i place a cd in my CD drive, like mandrake. In KDE when you go Configure Desktop > Device Icons

You can display mounted DVD, unmounted DVD, etc.. if I check both of them, nothing shows up.

my /etc/fstab looks like this:

none /mnt/dvd supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/dvd 0 0
none /mnt/cdwriter supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/scd1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0,--,user,rw 0 0

if i change them to this:

/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/dvd 0 0

then the icons stay on my desktop regardless if a CD is in the drive or not.

Any ideas?

Thank you!!

Murray

Strange, my 2.4.26 kernel boxes do just what you are looking for.
insert cd and automagically the cd icon appears, remove the cd and the icon goes 'pop' and disappears.
I would check the fstab for user permissions and noauto set at boot time. I would also make sure automounter was compiled into the kernel and running. Slack has the ability to do what you are looking for without 3rd party installs....

yea.. i just need to know how.

see the
/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Automount
for more info and it must be install in the kernel

The way auto mount/autofs works is that it will mount the CD device when you try to access the sharepoint via command line or browser..

This isn't what I'm looking for. I want the mount to happen once the media is inserted into the drive. Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks for responding!

Murray

I assumed this is/was what caused my external devices to mount when turned on or a disk is inserted as this did not happen before I compiled it into the kernel
My fstab is below
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw
/dev/hdb1 /netboot ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb2 /nethome ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb3 /netkernel ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb4 none swap sw
/dev/hdd1 /usr ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,exec,suid,dev,async,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user,exec,suid,dev,async,rw 0 0
/dev/pda1 /home/buslink/bl1 ext2 noauto,user,exec,suid,dev,async,rw 1 1
/dev/pda3 /home/buslink/bl3 ext2 noauto,user,exec,suid,dev,async,,rw 1 1
/dev/pda2 /mnt/backup ext2 rw,dev,async 1 1
/dev/ums1 /home/cam auto noauto,user,exec,suid,dev,async,rw 0 0
//hnkcpumain/DocumentsXP /home/DocumentsXP smbfs user,rw,/var/smb/mntlock
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

pda is an external usb harddrive its parts mount when automagically when turned off and on, icon is displayed on desktop when on/mounted not displayed when not on/mounted

ums1 is my fiji camera. it too does as the usb hd

the cd and floppy both are not on the desktop until you insert a disk then they also automagically appear...

LOL and this is just my "little" slackbox. TheDragon fstab is 4x this size...
ppl think a default install is hard....

Oh yes...
There are 2 other files for doing this that autofs/automount uses to automagically mount removable devices
auto.master
and your dev list named in auto.master

Works nearly the same as supermount.... as the syntax is almost the same...
But I guess this is not what you are looking for....

confusia.

Nichole_knc, thank you for your replies.. can you post your auto.master and your cdrom file referenced in auto.master? Maybe I can jigger it if I follow your lead.

Thanks,

Murray

This is my master

/mnt /etc/mnt.devs --timeout=120

/mnt is the location in which to mount stuff
/etc/mnt.devs is the device list

<mnt.devs>

cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/hdc
cam -fstype=auto :/dev/ums1
floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0
bl1 -fstype=ext2 :/dev/pda1
bl2 -fstype=ext2 :/dev/pda2

automount works pretty good. unformatted floppys will not mount. Joilet cds (windors made) can be a problem also requiring a normal mount issue...
So burned cdrw that have not be closed out tend to make automount burp....

I hope you find this helpful

yes. thank you. I don't see anything too different in your files. Well I'm stumped. Almost time to GIVE UP, and just have icons permanently on my desktop.

Thanks!