[wplug] ftp server setup - okay, maybe not...

[Elwin Green]

--- "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:18:47AM -0700, Elwin
> Green wrote:
> > 1) Neither the floppy drive nor the CDROM will
> mount.
> > Here are the relevant lines from the fstab:
> > /dev/fd0  /floppy  /auto    defaults,user,noauto 0
> > /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  /iso9660 
> defaults,ro,user,noauto
> > 0
> 
> Try "mount /floppy" after you have inserted a
> floppy, "mount /cdrom"
> after you have inserted a CD.  ("mount -a" doesn't
> do it because you
> have "noauto" specified for these, which is
> correct.)

Thank you - mount /floppy worked; mount /cdrom raised
a *new* issue:
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist.

So I cd'd to /dev, and sure enough, "cdrom" ain't
there. Shouldn't that have been created
automatically?How would I create it now?

> 
> Without mounting, the /floppy and /cdrom directories
> are just (empty)
> mount points, so that's why you don't see anything
> until you mount the
> filesystem there.  You could run various
> automounting daemons that
> look for removable media being inserted, but that
> sounds like overkill
> for your setup.
>

Speaking of overkill, the /dev directory must contain
several hundred files that I will *never* use (c'mon -
hdh20???). I'm consulting my Linux library to find a
shell command that will zap 'em en masse, but if
anyone has any suggestions, please speak up :)

E.

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