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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, under Red Hat there is a soft link for the
cdrom in /mnt/cdrom.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So for me I type mount /mnt/cdrom and the drive
gets loaded.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The easiest whay to know where your cdrom is to see
if it is on the primary or secondary controler. Typically, the cdrom is the
first drive on the secondary controler which is /dev/hdc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you want a drive such as a zip to automatically
mount on startup add it to your /etc/rc.local file if using Red
Hat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For me I enter the line:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mount /mnt/zip100.0/</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in /etc/rc.local, and my zip drive is always loaded
on startup.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>However, something like a floppy isn't good to load
on startup, because it is unlikely there is a floppy in the drive on startup as
with my zip drive.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What you might do is create an alias in your
/etc/bashrc file called floppy, and type that command and it will mount it for
you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example on my Red Hat box I have an alias line
like this:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>alias loadfd= 'mount /mnt/floppy/'</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A href="mailto:dannyboy@pobox.com" title=dannyboy@pobox.com>dannyboy</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:speakup@braille.uwo.ca" title=speakup@braille.uwo.ca>speakup</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 14, 2001 5:46
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> location of cdrom</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux
is on /dev/hda5. How is a cdrom accessed with linux? Do I need to
mount that drive? Is there a way to fix it so I do not have to mount the
floppy after logging on all the time?</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>