On Mon, 17 May 1999, Mike wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 16 May 1999, Daniel Knapp wrote:
> > 
> > --skip--
> > > 
> > > And don't write anything about /dev/sr0 in your fstab. That file is only
> > > for harddrives and not for cdroms etc.
> > > 
> > --skip--
> 
> > /dev/scd0       /cdrom      iso9660     noauto,user,ro
> > 
> /dev/scd0 is exactly equivalent to /dev/sr0.

The question concerned the appropriateness of SCSI entries in /etc/fstab.
Nevertheless, on Slackware as of 3.6 there are no /dev/sr* device names.
Has some distribution gone this direction?  The recent (June 1999) Linux
Journal has an article on Linux standards.

Cheers,

Gordon A. Gallup                          Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln            Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
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