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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:27:59 -0700
From:      Caleb Walker <cwalker@cwalk.org>
To:        Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: screwed up
Message-ID:  <01061001275900.01355@butthead.cwalk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010610064940.90675.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20010610064940.90675.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>

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The command is merely :
#mount /cdrom

On Saturday 09 June 2001 11:49 pm, you wrote:
> Went to mount the cdrom (BTW for the first time in my
> life) so I did a dmesg to see what the cdrom device
> was.  It was adc0 so I did "mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom"
> but did not work, and I noticed that there was no adc0
> dev in the /dev directory. I then went into /dev and
> did "./MAKEDEV acd0" and silently got the command
> prompt back and so assumed all went well, but did not
> see acd0 listed in /dev  and a "mount /dev/acd0
> /cdrom" once again did not work. I was mounting the
> cdrom so I could get a port of Netscape Navigator, and
> since I could not mount it, decided to get Netscape
> from an ftp site.  I therefore then cd
> /usr/ports/www/netscape47-navigator and did a make
> install and it printed that it was going to an ftp
> site to get it, and then a few more lines came up ,
> and then a fatal error occured and the system
> rebooted.
>
> Now when I try to boot freebsd I does not make it
> through the boot process. Can anyone figure out what
> happend, i.e., what I did wrong, and how I can recover
> from this without having to reinstall freebsd.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
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