Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:12:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Thomas G. Cleghorn" <tommygun@uunet.co.za>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to mount a CD.........in 250 easy steps Message-ID: <199908252012.WAA92930@gratis.grondar.za>
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> > 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...... > > If you installed from the cdrom, you already have an entry for it in > /etc/fstab. > > 'mount /cdrom' is all you need to do. :-) Another one not answering the question. He got the CD mounted (eventually). What was not obvious enough was what the cd device name was. He was very diligent about looking for help himself (I know, 'cos he is in my office). There was _nothing_ to tell him that /dev/wcdoc was his IDE cdrom drive. He eventually figured it out by getting sysinstall to mout the cd, and grokking the output of "mount". If you "man -k cd" or "man -k cdrom", there is no clue as to what the device is. (I am at a total loss with this for non SCSI devices). Tommy looked in Handbook, FAQ, man -k <lotsa shit> and the output of dmesg(8). Methinks he found the type of hole in our documentation that gives software a bad name :-). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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