From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 18 17:27:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE41214C7F for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA05031; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:20:30 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:20:30 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Stede Bonnet Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how can I 'mount' the cdrom drive? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Stede Bonnet wrote: > > I need to be able to read files from a cdrom, but whe I 'ls ' the /cdrom, > there are not files. > > I suspect that I need to 'mount' the cd drive, but the chart in my book > says it would expect the dc drive to be SCSI, and mine is IDE driven. If you installed from cdrom (which I suspect), the installation system will have put the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab; you should be able to just use: mount /cdrom Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message