To use automount/autofs, you must build the support into your kernel, then install the autofs package. Although it doesn't act exactly like you discribed. If you put a cd into the drive, nothing will happen until the first time you access it. It'll stay mounted till a timeout is reached, then umount itself, until the next time it's accessed. -mk
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Gran Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 4:06 PM To: Debian User Subject: Re: auto-mounting /cdrom Thus spake csj: > On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:09, martin f krafft wrote: > > yo! > > > > i've seen it done before, but i can't remember how. i believe it was > > a gnome feature, but there's got to be a way to do this underneath > > any desktop environment... when i insert a CDROM, i want it to be > > available without having to mount. conversely, i always want to be > > able to just eject without umount. how can one enable this? any > > docs/links/howtos? > > I'm sure it's a kernel feature. I first saw it on Mandrake. I disabled > it because I've heard somebody say that it actually slows down the > system. Watch the cdrom's lights intermittently blink. autofs? -- Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. -- Shakespeare
