Antonio Olivares: >> If you mount it manually, then yes you can mount to >> /media/cdrom, /media/cdrecorder. There will be >> several cd's/dvd's that will not automount by >> themselves, and you might just have to mount them >> manually. J. K. Cliburn: > Thanks for your insight. I appreciate it. Register my vote for the > FC4 way of doing it. Wine and its ilk need a fixed mount point. The > new method of mounting by volname forces me to manually create a > doubly mounted volume in order to make Wine-based DVD tools work. I rather wish it worked more like my old Amiga did: Removable media didn't need anything like mount points, nor manual mounting/unmounting (the system handled that rather well). CDs and floppies were noticed when they were inserted, by the drives, which informed the OS about the media change. They didn't need unmounting, as changes were finalised seconds after the write (allowing efficient write a chunk of stuff, not write everything as its done, nor do nothing as you write until a manual flush; which allowed you to remove media mere moments after YOU had finished with it). We could address drives by device names, which, for example, makes it easy to CD over to the CD-ROM with the same commands no matter what CD was in the drive. We could address volumes by volume name, making it easy to refer to a particular volume no matter what drive it was in (or not in, if be the case; you'd be asked to insert the desired volume in any drive, and it'd automatically handle it once available). I'd have none of the usual Linux malarkey involved with plugging in a USB drive (or similar) and having to find where it was mounted, and determine which "usbdisk" was the flash drive, which was the hard drive in a box, and which was the digital still camera. Didn't like the name of a particular volume? Simple, rename it. It's a shame there's no-one who seems to be able to port that method of working over to Linux. We ought to be able to easily just insert and remove CD-ROMs and floppies at will. We ought to be able to do something similar with other removeable media. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
