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Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by doubledutch » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:27 pm

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double@utch ._. $  sudo apt-get install eject
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  cdtool setcd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  eject
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 50.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 338 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Went to go eject my trusty sr0 and couldn't believe this wasn't installed. I'd always assumed it was part of coreutils or something.
I suppose it's bloat on a netbook, vm, or single-board computer... but, is it just BORK! or is it left out of all spins? Just wondering.

What's the LinuxBBQ way of ejecting a CD/DVD-ROM drive from the command line?

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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by darry1966 » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:32 pm

I can confirm I had to install it in Bork.:)
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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:43 pm

I just press the button on the tray :)
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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by doubledutch » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:54 pm

It's been my experience with Debian for a while that sometimes pressing the button does nothing and sometimes causes the light to blink without doing anything useful...
Even without the disk mounted, and while out of all /dev working directories, eject has always been there for me in my time of need.
Pilots have had eject since 1929. If this were a space mission, we'd all be dead.

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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:17 pm

^ Except those with paper clips. ;)
Although to tell the truth I think it's been a good long while since I used a CD, except as a coaster.
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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:48 am

doubledutch wrote:
What's the LinuxBBQ way of ejecting a CD/DVD-ROM drive from the command line?
No fucking idea. I killed mine with my own hands. :)
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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by rhowaldt » Fri Nov 20, 2015 7:06 am

i agree that i'd always kinda expected eject to be part of some basic things. however, anything to do with CDs is a separate category really, so it kinda makes sense that way for eject to not be installed by default. as you can see from some examples here, lotsa people don't even use cds in the first place. me, i only use them when i'm ripping the audio to mp3 :)
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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by Snap » Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:46 am

CDs are on the verge of being obsolete. How many new computers have an optical drive reader? I haven't burned one in years. I also wonder if adding the user to the floppy cdrom user groups are actually needed for anything these days.

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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:17 pm

Off-topic: Why is this thread in the dump release section? If there is no reason for that I will move it elsewhere.

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Unread post by rhowaldt » Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:17 am

i didn't do it
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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by GekkoP » Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:57 am

Don't know either.

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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:07 pm

OK then. Moved to the appropriate section.

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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Nov 21, 2015 2:38 pm

eject isn't installed because apt is installed. eject is also not generally installed by default in other Linux distros. At least not in funtoo (IIRC) and archlinux.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 54#p976854

The reason why it is not included on most LinuxBBQ releases by default: because I, machinebacon, do not use computers with a CDROM drive. I also don't install fdutils (floppy) or jazip (for Iomega Zip drives) on the base releases. If I would do so, I would have to make a remaster for every single user, which would be a bit too much unpaid work for me, sorry!

Hope it answers the question.
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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by doubledutch » Sat Nov 21, 2015 4:41 pm

This makes sense... nice to know the reasoning.

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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by Snap » Sun Nov 22, 2015 8:51 am

Good to know. Thanks, bacon.

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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by darry1966 » Sun Nov 22, 2015 9:20 am

Fair enough -- its only an apt away anyway.
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Re: Hold on, let me get eject before we try that...

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:43 am

Then we can close it. Apt is your friend as usual and it is not a support question. ;)

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