drives and booting
In a windows machine, usually, when you put a disk into your drive (floppy or DC) it mounts itself simply by virtue of opening it.
In a linux machine, or at least mine, you have to mount the media before you can open it up for viewing or use.
What's the difference? Is one bette rthan the other? i can't think of a situation in which i'd like to put media in a drive but NOT mount it, so why is the option there? is it a hold over from old linux, or am I missing somehting and making a fool of myself?
In a linux machine, or at least mine, you have to mount the media before you can open it up for viewing or use.
What's the difference? Is one bette rthan the other? i can't think of a situation in which i'd like to put media in a drive but NOT mount it, so why is the option there? is it a hold over from old linux, or am I missing somehting and making a fool of myself?
