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[JRocket <johnstevenson1970@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you comment the line out in /etc/fstab that defines the CDRom drive,
then you no longer get any mount problems.

I believe that this issue is due to the fact that if a USB drive (or
key) is inserted, it could be assigned to the /dev/sd** device that is
defined in the /etc/fstab file for the cdrom, which specifies a cdrom
type file system.  As it is extremely unlikely that your USB  device is
formated as a cdrom (is09660), then the mount will fail.

For example, if your /etc/fstab file defines your CDRom drive as
/dev/sdb1 and you insert a 1GB USB Key, that key could quite easily be
assigned to /dev/sdb1 by the hotplug management.  When trying to
actually mount the 1GB USB key, there will be a check in /etc/fstab to
see if the mount has been defined.  In this case there is a mount point
defined for /dev/sdb1, so there is an attempt to mount the 1GB Key as a
CD (iso9660), naturally failing as it will most likely be fat16/32 or
ext2/3 (xfs, jfs, zfs, etc.).

You could always define labels on the file systems of your USB devices,
but you would still need to define mount points in the /etc/fstab file
using those labels.

Apartently Ubuntu is getting more official support for installing from
USB devices, so perhaps the installer will be a bit more intelligent
about what gets put in the /etc/fstab file.

For now, I would just uncomment the line unless you use an external
CD/DVD drive.  If you do use an external drive, then label your USB
partions and define them in /etc/fstab

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Usb stick added to fstab
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226578
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: New

Bug description:
Ubuntu Eee is mainly installed though usb sticks.
Ubuntu thinks it's a cd and adds it to /etc/fstab
This f**ks everything up. Connecting something is ignored since there's an error in fstab

Ex:
/dev/sdb1     /media/cdrom0     udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0     0