Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 01:31:54 -0700 From: "Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@inav.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Newbie: Q regarding /dev entries Message-ID: <3B4425FA.2000305@inav.net>
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Howdy there. I'm new to FreeBSD, but have been using That Other Free UNIX-alike for the last few years and am pretty comfortable with it, although I'm certainly no guru. Recently, in an attempt to broaden my UNIX horizons, I've attempted to install FreeBSD (I happened to have 4.0 CDs lying around--forgot where I picked them up from). The install was relatively painless, and the command-line environment seems reasonably familiar. First thing I went about doing was attempting to mount a CD so I could install bash (as opposed to sh). This is where I ran into my first problem. Whereas Linux has /dev/hdX entries that make a degree of sense (/dev/hda is my main HD, /dev/hdb is a Zip, /dev/hdc is my CD-ROM), the plethora of entries in FreeBSD-4.0's /dev/ hierarchy is confusing the living daylights out of me. Attempting to mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd0a (the two most likely candidates, I thought) were fruitless. I tried several others which I thought were likely, and struck out on those as well. Thus, my first question: given that in Linux my setup is: /dev/hda --> IDE HD /dev/hdb --> IDE Zip /dev/hdc --> IDE CDROM ... can anyone give me a pointer on which /dev entries those correspond to in FreeBSD? ========== Second question. I'd like to get EMACS rewired to accept the backspace key, instead of throwing a fit at the fact that I'm not using delete. Now, I can just hack out a short EMACS LISP definition to remap the key, but I was hoping there was a more elegant solution. ========== If these questions have already been answered in a FAQ somewhere, please point me to it--I searched through the docs on FreeBSD.org, and couldn't find answers to these questions. However, I'm not ruling out the possibility I missed one. Thanks in advance! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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