Re: [MLUG] Automatically umounting a DVD image?

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 1/16/06, Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I have a little problem. My laptop's CD drive gave up the ghost and the
> distribution I use, SuSE 10.0, uses the install CDs to install some of the
> packages. My computer is old and I don't want to spend $100+ to buy an
> external drive. I'll replace the computer this fall.
>
> So I downloaded the install DVD ISO image and if I mount that image, I can add
> that to the installation sources list in YaST and it works just fine. I know
> that if I make a script and put it in /etc/init.d I can get the ISO image
> mounted at every boot. What I want to do is be able to umount the image when
> I shut down the computer because I heard you can mess up things if you do not
> umount a mounted ISO image when you shut down. First, is that true? And
> secondly, where would I put a umount script to umount the image upon
> shutdown?
>
> Phillip
>

I'm sure your distribution already has scripts to umount everything on shutdown.

I don't understand what things could get messed up by not umounting
the image, but mount it read-only just in case.

Regards,
Mark
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