On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:08, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2007-01-10 at 11:44 -0600, Stevens wrote:
I added a drive to my system, put 10.2 on it and can boot to either it or my old 9.1 drive, mainly to compare operations between the versions. My big problem with 10.2 is tied to the dvd:
I cannot pop in a movie dvd and browse with konqueror because automount (subfs) is deprecated.
Well, that's probably not the reason, but anyway.
I installed ivman but it says that /dev/hdc (the dvd drive) doesn't exist, probably because it has a movie dvd in it.
It should exist even if there is a movie inside. Even more, with no disk inside there should be a device node.
Obviously 10.2 can see a data dvd when it's in /dev/hdc or software adds from the dvd wouldn't work.
So, what do I need to do to duplicate the automount function that works so well in 9.1?
It works different.
If you use gnome or kde, it works. I mean, both environment handle automount themselves, somehow. This means that you should _not_ have any line in the /etc/fstab refering the dvd drive.
If you don't use either gnome or kde, then the drives will simply not mount, unless you modify things.
You may use traditional manual mount, adding the clasic line to the fstab.
Do not use subfs. Mind! The autorepair dvd of 10.1 thinks the /etc/fstab file is wrong and adds a subfs line for the dvd there - a bug, IMHO, which I don't know if 10.2 has solved or not.
Only if you want automatic mounting and you do not use either KDE or Gnome, then install and configure ivman.
However, in all cases, you should have the corresponding device /dev/hdc or whatever, if there is a drive - regardless of it status, I think. If there isn't, that's what you have to solve first.
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