Re: [MLUG] Automatically umounting a DVD image?

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Monday 16 January 2006 10:06, Mark Rages wrote:
 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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Okay, I will mount it with -r and try it out. Thanks!

Phillip 

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