Mounting CDs

Ben Smithurst ben at scientia.demon.co.uk
Fri Dec 3 17:01:17 GMT 1999


Helen McCall wrote:

> You want a line like the one below in your /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/mcd        /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
> 
> I admit shamefacedly that I have lifted this straight from my Debian
> system because it is to late at night.
> 
> You want to replace the "mcd" bit with whatever driver you are using. The
> bit you are most interested in is after the "iso9660" bit. That is how to
> allow user mounts read-only.

iso9660 is spelt cd9660 on FreeBSD, too.

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