[LUAU] Automatic mounting of floppy and CDROM

[David Imai]

I had given up on autofs, but since you said it should work I took another look and was able to get it working. The problem was in /etc/default/autofs. It contains a line that says AUTOFS_ENABLED=false. When I changed it to AUTOFS_ENABLED=true it worked. I don't know why it was set up like this. When you install something, shouldn't it be enabled by default? and if not, there should be clear instructions as to how to enable it. 

This is the auto.misc file:
kernel		-ro					ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux
boot		-fstype=ext2				:/dev/hda1
removable	-fstype=ext2,sync,nodev,nosuid		:/dev/hdd
cd		-fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid	:/dev/hdc
floppy		-fstype=auto,sync,nodev,nosuid,umask=002	:/dev/fd0

I'm trying to create symbolic links to /var/autofs/misc/floppy and /var/autofs/misc/cdrom. There are different files for the floppy drive, /floppy, /dev/floppy, /dev/fd0, /dev/fd. Where can I find more information about all these special files, and how KDE programs like Kword access the floppy and CD-ROM? Thanks for your help.


----- Original Message -----
From: Vince Hoang <vince.hoang at gmail.com>
To: LUAU <luau at lists.hosef.org>
Subject: Re: [LUAU] Automatic mounting of floppy and CDROM
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 05:28:32 -1000

> 
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:58:45 -1000, webmaster at hawaiidakine.com
> <webmaster at hawaiidakine.com> wrote:
> > David Imai wrote:
> > > I am currently preparing a number of used computers for home users who are mostly beginners. Most of them are Pentium II with 128MB or less RAM and 4GB hard drives. The computers currently have Skolelinux Debian and KDE installed on them. 
> 
> > > Installed autofs: "apt-get install autofs"
> > > I did not recompile the kernel.
> > > Restarted computer.
> > > Looked at /proc/filesystems but autofs was not listed there.
> > > Looked at /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc. They seem OK.
> > > Made symbolic links to /var/autofs/misc/floppy and /var/autofs/misc/cd: ln -s /var/autofs/misc/floppy /floppy
> > > ln -s /var/autofs/misc/cd /cdrom
> > > (I'm not sure if I did this correctly).
> 
> Looks right. The default Debian kernel and autofs packages just work
> the way they should. I would be suprised if Skolelinux moved too far
> away from that.
> 
> Send `grep cdrom /proc/ide/*/media` and `cat /etc/auto.misc`.
> 
> > I'm not sure about Linux but ...
> > Under FreeBSD you can set the "noauto" to "auto" to mount under
> > /etc/fstab file. Try this.
> 
> That option tells which filesystems should be mounted at startup, not
> when the directory is accessed.
> 
> -Vince
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