Hi everyone,

I have been using Red Hat based distributions since RH 7.3. I always install the "base" installation, and then up2date/yum the packets I need for a particular server.

In CentOS 5.1, I perform the "base" installation by selecting only the following packet groups during installation:

• Base System
  • Base

Well, in other distributions that I used, like Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat 9.0, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 6, and Red Hat Enterprise 4, the cdrom is always installed correctly, with mount point /mnt/cdrom or /media/cdrom, depending on the distribution. The /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files show the cdrom correctly.

Also, on those distributions, when I insert the pendrive, it is detected and the mount point created.

But on CentOS 5.1, the cdrom and pendrive are not detected automatically.

Any clues why?

Cheers.

Maybe whatever automounter Cent uses is not installed. Have you checked for it?

Well, autofs is installed and started.

But I figured it out. I've found this page on Red Hat:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/redha.../msg00185.html

where it says:

So, as it turns out, /etc/fstab must be edited manually on CentOS 5.1 and RHEL5, in case one doesn't want to install gnome-mount and its ridiculous number of dependencies.

Cheers!

Disk-(like) devices are also visible in for instance /dev/disk/by-label, so if you have an USB stick with a partition labelled PENDRIVE it'll show up consistently as /dev/disk/by-label/PENDRIVE. Granted, it's no fstab-sync but at least you can point your fstab line to that and know it'll work. As for CDROM/DVDROM devices Udev should point those to /dev/cdrom and they're also in /dev/disk/by-id.

Indeed! Thanks for the info. I actually didn't know about this feature. Too many features, so little time to study them all.

Cheers!