From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 04:06:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27956 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 04:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kleenex.apk.net (kleenex.apk.net [207.54.133.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27947 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 04:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgkmail@kleenex.apk.net) From: sgkmail@kleenex.apk.net Received: from localhost (sgkmail@localhost) by kleenex.apk.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA13893; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 07:06:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 07:06:16 -0400 (EDT) To: Mike Smith cc: Chris Hill , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-Reply-To: <199808050024.RAA00658@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > You don't have to. > > # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt > > works just fine. > This brings up something I was curious about. I'm used to having a /mnt/floppy and a /mnt/cdrom, as well as other removable media being off of /mnt. (I also place shared partitions there like /mnt/dos or /mnt/ntfs) Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD uses /cdrom and a plain /mnt? Or is it just the way it worked out? :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message