Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 22:42:49 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: howto mount a dos cdrom? Message-ID: <20011204224248.D23147@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20011205003031.A4299@northernbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:30:34AM -0600 References: <200112050543.fB55hlJ23139@tao.thought.org> <20011205003031.A4299@northernbrewer.com>
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:30:34AM -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: > Gary Kline (kline@tao.thought.org) wrote: > > > > > Is there some magic to reading a DOS/W95 CD (of fonts) from > > either my CDROM (4.3) or DVD (4.4)? Several years ago I bought > > a CDROM full of cheap fonts and somehow got the entire disk > > into my FreeBSD 2.2.6. I may have use dd to get the data off > > /dev/cd0c. Last night I tried using dd with the same fonts CD > > and /dev/acd0c. No joy. > > If the CD is a standard computer CD (with an iso-9660 filesystem), you > should be able to just do this: > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom > > You seem to be not sure as to whether your CD-ROM is /dev/cd0c or > /dev/acd0c. I believe SCSI CD-ROMs are /dev/cd0c, while ATAPI > CD-ROMs are /dev/acd0c. You can `cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep > cd` to confirm what device to use for CD. > A gentleman from the Czeck Republic (I believe) cleared up my confusion. `mount /cdrom' did the trick. Any easier and it would've bit me on the nose. --SCSI on _this_ platform; ATAPI CD on my DNS server; and ATAPI DVD drive on my new box. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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