On Monday 04 Jul 2011 15:48:06 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? > >> > > >> > Only when you ask them to. > >> > >> I'm stupid. Of _course_ a live CD can't mount HDD filesystems at boot. > >> To do this it would need /etc/fstab, for which it would need to be told > >> the root partition. A live CD doesn't get this. > > > > A live CD can mount partitions automatically at boot, some do. all it > > needs to do is scan the disk partition tables, create the mount points > > and mount them. > > > > Knoppix has been doing the first two for years, and writing the details > > to /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount them easily. > > > > > > -- > > Neil Bothwick > > > > A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. > > And to further complicate it, many also use a similar technique for > finding themselves, mounting one filesystem after another until they > find some distinct marker file to identify where to find the rest of > their data. Others auto-mount and poke around for auto-loading of > extensions unless such features are disabled by a boot-time option.
I've only come across LiveCDs which scan the drive and create mount points - but not mount any device unless explicitly asked to do so by the user. However, I wouldn't be surprised if some more recent installation CDs go further than that, as Joshua claims. Joshua, which LiveCDs behave in the way you describe by automounting partitions and searching fs? -- Regards, Mick
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