On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:58:45 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Imai wrote: > > I am currently preparing a number of used computers for home users who are > > mostly beginners. Most of them are Pentium II with 128MB or less RAM and > > 4GB hard drives. The computers currently have Skolelinux Debian and KDE > > installed on them.
> > Installed autofs: "apt-get install autofs" > > I did not recompile the kernel. > > Restarted computer. > > Looked at /proc/filesystems but autofs was not listed there. > > Looked at /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc. They seem OK. > > Made symbolic links to /var/autofs/misc/floppy and /var/autofs/misc/cd: ln > > -s /var/autofs/misc/floppy /floppy > > ln -s /var/autofs/misc/cd /cdrom > > (I'm not sure if I did this correctly). Looks right. The default Debian kernel and autofs packages just work the way they should. I would be suprised if Skolelinux moved too far away from that. Send `grep cdrom /proc/ide/*/media` and `cat /etc/auto.misc`. > I'm not sure about Linux but ... > Under FreeBSD you can set the "noauto" to "auto" to mount under > /etc/fstab file. Try this. That option tells which filesystems should be mounted at startup, not when the directory is accessed. -Vince
