is Ubuntu meant to automate adding new cdroms?

[Erik Bågfors]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:03:39 -0400, GR Gaudreau <grgaud at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 13:04 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:30:22PM +0100, Mark C wrote:
> >
> > > In hte past on debian, I could change any bit of hardware and have it
> > > automatically configured during the next bootup, I take it it does this
> > > using hotplug instead?
> > >
> > > So I I chnage the mainboard and soundcard, would hotplug take card of
> > > the rest, like discover used to?
> >
> > Yes, hotplug takes care of loading all of the necessary drivers for your
> > hardware.  It won't create directories for new CD-ROMs, but there are other
> > mechanisms which handle that (pmount).
> 
> [GR]   If I understand what you're saying, Matt, then I can buy a new CD
> writer, for example, install it in my box, boot up and the system, via
> hotplug, will load the driver for it, and all I have to do is create an
> fstab entry to be able to mount it and use it?
> 

No, it should mount it for you automatically when you put a cd in it.

/Erik