Newbie questions: 2 of a few.

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 3/8/06, Bruce M. Axtens <bruce_axtens at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I've been trying to get FreeBSD 5.4 going on a friend's Celeron and
> have been doing okay ... until now.
>
> Question 1: How do I get automounting of cdroms working? Is it possible
> in KDE or GNOME, when you put in a cd that the icon just appears on the
> desktop (like it does in another OS I could name)?
>
> Question 2: How do I get FreeBSD to automount a USB drive? I have a
> Kingston DataTraveller 128MB usb drive.

The Auto Mounter Daemon will do the job..

Start here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=amd

Then go on here:
http://www.nber.org/amd.html


>
> Thanks in advance.

Hope this helps.

>
> Regards,
> Bruce.
>

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