Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Patrick <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 15 October 2002 16:16, wolfi wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:53, Patrick wrote:
> > Hey gurus,
> >
> > What is the correct entry in "fstab" for a dvd?  Is it the same as
> > a cdrom or slightly different?  Would something like this be
> > correct?
> >
> > /dev/dvd /media/dvd     auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0?
> > or /dev/hdd /media/dvd
> >
> > Thanks
> > Patrick
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> These two lines are relevant:
>
> /dev/cdrom   /media/cdrom    auto   ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
> /dev/dvd     /media/dvd      auto   ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
>
> And, if you DVD drive is, let's say hdd, then you need to link it:
>
> #ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/dvd
> #ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
>
> Linking the DVD also to cdrom is only reasonable if you do not have a
> separate CD-ROM drive - which is assumed to be the case, since
> normally you use a DVD drive to replace a CD-ROM drive.
>
> Cheers .... Wolfi
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Thanks Wolfi,
That works just great!  The dvd is doing very and works just fine now.  
Now I wish I had paid more attention to those xine & mplayer posts!  
;o)  Thanks for the help.

Patrick
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