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numerodix
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 Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:24 am Post subject: eject cd? |
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I wonder if there's a way to eject the cdrom drive. I remember there were these utilities for this on Windows, any way to do this on Gentoo?
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tomk
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:49 am Post subject: |
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Use eject:
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eject /mnt/cdrom
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You can give it the mount point or cdrom device as an argument, and -t to close the tray.
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numerodix
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent!
Another question then. Right now I'm performing a remote install of gentoo, it was started from the 2000.1 livecd. Is there a way I could reboot and eject the cd in the process (ie. like knoppix does)? That way I could boot with the new kernel and into the live system. I suppose that would take alteration of the bootup script or something but is it doable? 
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Lifl
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Wouldn't the problem with that be that the computer automatically loads the cdrom when it reboots? |
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numerodix
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I thought someone might say that. But in this case it's not a problem, it's a laptop with one of those trays you have to load manually.
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Lifl
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, alright  |
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jamisnemo
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:35 am Post subject: |
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yes, yes its an old post. But I am having the problem that lifl points out. Is it possiable however to somehome modify the bios from linux itself so the boot order can be changed?
Or is there any other way to reboot to a fresh install remotly? I was possibly thinking of somehow modifying the cdrom drive so that it isn't recognized but that wont exactly work if im still running off the cd will it... 
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