On Mon July 25 2005 9:42 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Why uninstall it? Just use Yast --> System Services to turn it off. (not start at boot)
So then the question becomes: is it safe to turn it off?
It is safe. What will be affected I couldn't tell you. I've never been a big fan of automounting so I couldn't tell whether it is affected.
well, I wasn't really following this until you mentioned automounting. I notice now ( SUSE 9.3 KDE 3.4.1) when I start up K3B it gives me a system configuration problem message. SAying Automount can cause problems with CD/DVD writing. But it says to disable the automounting entries in /etc/fstab. so is the best way to change /etc/fstab, or turn off Hald ? here is what I changed in fstab: from: /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,unhide,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 to: dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,unhide,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 will that work, and will it affect playing audio CD's?? if it doesn't automount, how do you tell the system you have inserted a (whatever-type you use) CD? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc