What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Nov 19 11:45:11 PST 2007


Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 02:40:18PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>   
>>    Even though audio CDs use the ISO-9660 standard, they aren't really 
>> mountable (depends on how you look at the problem, i.e. what OS you use, 
>> and what audio playing app you use).
>>    Specifying the /dev node or mount point (via the application / 
>> plugin preferences), without trying to mount the actual disk, will most 
>> likely yield the results you want.
>> Cheers,
>> -Garrett
>>     
>
> 	Well, live 'n' learn. Of course, then mmore you think aboutit,
> 	the CD's and DVD's are read-only.   No need to mount them.
> 	One of these decades, I'll write up a long article on how-to use
> 	these disks; and how to copy  them as well.  It alll works; 
> 	it's just more autoomated under the Ubuntu fork of Debian.... 
>
> 	gary
>   
    Technically that was gnome / hald doing the work for you, not Linux :).
-Garrett


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