Re: cdrom

From: Shane (aka froggy) (spamspamuber.l33t.god_at_spamgmail.com)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:57:33 +1200

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:52:52 -0600, Dave Uhring wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:35:42 +1200, Shane (aka froggy) wrote:
>
>> mount point is irrelevant (whilst I am extremely grateful for the help you
>> have provided ( and continued to provide) there is no need for that
>> comment is there?
>
> In the configuration I described there most certainly is relevance in the
> mount point. It was configured in /etc/fstab.
>
> If you wish to make your life difficult then you can remove the cdrom
> entry from /etc/fstab and do it every time by typing in the device and all
> mount options.
>
> My mount command was complete and you chose to tell us that you were
> attempting to mount the device directly on a *device*!

er shouldnt mount /dev/cd0a cause the OS to mount the device at the mount
point as specified in /etc/fstab?
(and yes I chose a differing mount point in my fstab entry) 

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