On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, 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 using the following: - I installed "autofs". - I created a file /etc/auto.master with the following lines: (this sets the timeout to 4 seconds) /var/autofs/misc /etc/auto.misc timeout=4 - I created a file /etc/auto.misc with the following content: cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nodev,nosuid :/dev/cdrom cdwriter -fstype=iso9660,ro,nodev,nosuid :/dev/cdwriter floppy -fstype=vfat,sync,nodev,nosuid,gid=25,umask=002,check=relaxed :/dev/fd0 zip -fstype=auto,sync,nodev,nosuid,gid=25,umask=002,check=relaxed :/dev/zip - create a link from /var/autofs/misc to /misc (for convenience...) - use "/etc/init.d/autofs restart" to restart the automounter - accessing /misc/cd, /misc/cdwriter, etc. will now mount the cd and you can access it. Walter
