Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:24:34 -0500 From: Wayne Willcox <wayne@reliant.pmr.com> To: "Thomas G. Cleghorn" <tommygun@uunet.co.za>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to mount a CD.........in 250 easy steps Message-ID: <19990825092434.A8660@reliant.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <19990825091857.A8540@reliant.pmr.com>; from Wayne Willcox on Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 09:18:57AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990825160831.16546f-100000@argonaut.ops.iafrica.com> <19990825091857.A8540@reliant.pmr.com>
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opps, forgot this is the entry in your /etc/fstab. Then all you have to
do in the future is mount /cdrom.
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 09:18:57AM -0500, Wayne Willcox wrote:
> It is easy, here it is for a scsi drive. You will have to use
> your own device name though.
>
> /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 04:20:01PM +0200, Thomas G. Cleghorn wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > Im a relative newbie. I installed BSD 3.2 with no problems from
> > the 4 volume CD set. I then decided Id like to look through the CD myself
> > and try to mount it, how......
> > I found the syntax (man mount etc)and wanted to mount it on /cdrom but was
> > unsure of 'special'. Anyway, grep`d FAQs and Handbook in vain for any
> > answers. In the end I ran /stand/sysinstall, changed to a different
> > console did a df and found what I was looking for /dev/wcd0c (I think).
> > wcd0c does not appear in my dmesg, where was I meant to find the info?
> > For a newbie should not getting a cd to work be relatively easy or at
> > least documented in the handbook or FAQs?
> >
> > Thomas Cleghorn<---Not too pathetic sounding I hope.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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