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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT free.fr>
  • Cc: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] su command on ISO 0.7
  • Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:13:50 -0500

I've got a scsi CDROM drive!
One of my boxes is entirely scsi. so when the latest Iso comes out I'll
reinstall that box.
Quoting Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT free.fr>:

> Hello,
>
> Two points:
>
> 1/ The entries that will be added in /etc/fstab will have the options
> "noauto".
> That means that such entries will not be mounted at boot time, but only on
> user request. So, such entries will not cause any problem or error
> messages
> if the CDROM or floppy drive is missing in the system.
>
> 2/ Concerning the CDROM drive, it will use the syntax /dev/cdroms/cdrom0,
> meaning
> that the system will autodetect the cdrom, whether it is SCSI or IDE (or
> whatever).
> This later needs to be tested. Who has an SCSI cdrom or PCMCIA cdrom
> drive?
>
> Voila,
> Benoit PAPILLAULT
>
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:11:59 -0500
> Geoffrey Derber <gderber AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
>
> > evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > >>I would like to see floppy and cdrom entries in /etc/fstab after
> > >>install with mount points in /mnt/*
> > >
> > >
> > > Careful: not all systems include floppy drives anymore! My brother's
> Shuttle does not, and most macs since the first iMac don't either. :) I
> agree it makes sense to have a /mnt/cdrom though as we're obviously
> installing from an ISO and thus there must be a cdrom present (as I believe
> you yourself have pointed out :). However I agree with another poster that
> no entries should be present in the fstab, as an all-scsi system (or a
> system
> with no floppy drive :) might generate an error.
> > >
> > > From what I recall about the installation process the /etc/fstab file
> needs to be modified anyway to properly specify the filesystem in certain
> cases (reiserfs, xfs) so we could just provide a commented line for both the
> cdrom and floppy drive. (Although I admit to not having done a SourceMage
> install in a /very/ long time... glorious uptime! :) I suppose having empty
> directories for both cdrom and floppy under /mnt can't hurt.
> > >
> >
> > Just out of curriosity, during the step when we ask the user to create
> > the file systems. Would it be possible to ask a couple questions about
> > their floppy / cdrom setup and possibly setup the fstab based on those
> > questions?
> >
> > Geoff
> >
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