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vbenares
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 Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject: TIWRLTD: 2 - Making Access to the CD Driver Easier? |
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Things I would really like to do part 2
As things stand, if I boot the computer with a CD in the drive, no CD icon appears on the gnome desktop. If I boot the computer without a CD in the drive, I usually - but not always - get the icon. If there is no icon, gnome won't mount the drive. It gives a message something like: cannot mount none it is already mounted.
Here is the relevant line from my /etc/fstab
| Code: | none /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 0 0
#below is the original line; above is line added to use supermount
#/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user $ |
Any ideas? |
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ecatmur
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 12:05 am Post subject: |
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Well, that's the point of supermount - it *is* always mounted.
You might do well to look into patches for gnome with supermount - I remember that the Mandrake Gnome is heavily patched for such things.
Does Ctrl+R (_Refresh) work to get Gnome to recheck the CD drive?
(Bring on Project Utopia... /me wants) |
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vbenares
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| The trouble is that, if I boot the computer with a CD in the drive, I cannot mount or in any way that I know about, access the disk. And checking to see whether there's a CD in the drive before I power up is pretty near impossible. Refresh doesn't seem to do a thing. |
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vbenares
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| . . . and if I do boot without a disk, get the icon, insert a data disk, read a file and remove the disk, every time I browse using Nautilus I get a delay while the machine checks the (empty) CD drive. The only way I know to stop this is to reboot. |
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fusibou
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| vbenares wrote: | | . . . and if I do boot without a disk, get the icon, insert a data disk, read a file and remove the disk, every time I browse using Nautilus I get a delay while the machine checks the (empty) CD drive. The only way I know to stop this is to reboot. |
So you have your CD in your /etc/fstab file? (in Gnome 2.4 you have to exit and restart gnome after making changes to fstab in order to access the devices in the right-click menu on the desktop)
And you right-click on the desktop and mount the CD when you want to read it and unmount it before ejecting it?
Should be fine.
Anyhow, Gnome 2.6 gets even easier. There's a computer icon on the desktop and when you open it, all your fstab devices are there and double-clicking mounts them and opens up a nautilus window for the device. |
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vbenares
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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I think the relevant part of my fstab is posted above. Perhaps I should just ditch the supermount?
I started using supermount in an effort to get the "cd icon" that everyone insisted was on my desktop to actually appear on the desktop. Without the supermount, the cd drive was unmountable from the desktop.
But perhaps I should just wait for the new gnome before trying to get this to work again. |
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