On Monday 14 October 2002 12:19 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > Okay. Would you mind helping me through this then with fstab > > changes, etc? My CD/DVD drive is master and the burner is slave. So > > will the CD reader now become scd0 and the burner scd1? Stuff like > > that. > > I choose to use /local instead of the conventional /mnt. I do have a > /mnt which is a symbolic link to /local. I also have a > /<machine_name> for each machine on my LAN with the same > subdirectories as /local for mounting remote filesystems. > > Assuming you are not using supermount then /etc/fstab must contain: > > /dev/scd0 /local/scd0 iso9660 user,exec,noauto,defaults 0 0 > /dev/scd1 /local/scd1 iso9660 user,exec,noauto,defaults 0 0 > > As root, you will have to mkdir scd0 and scd1 off your /mnt. > > Your /etc/fstab stanzas must contain: > > append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi " > with the appropriate hd names then as root run lilo. > > Then reboot, check dmesg, and use kdiskfree (kdf) to verify things > are OK visually and by using kdf to mount a CD on each mount point. > > cdrecord operates directly on the device so a CD should not be > mounted for burning a CD.
Ron, thanks a lot. I wanted to be sure I hadn't missed anything. I'll let you know what happens. Cheers, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Monday, October 14, 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9
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