Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:48:41 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: "Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@inav.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie: Q regarding /dev entries Message-ID: <20010705104444.I58995-100000@localhost.de> In-Reply-To: <3B4425FA.2000305@inav.net>
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > 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 > > 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/ad0 > /dev/hdb --> IDE Zip do not know > /dev/hdc --> IDE CDROM /dev/acd0c I hope this will help for the start. Uli. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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