Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 06:10:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Stede Bonnet <stede@dgriffin.org> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how can I 'mount' the cdrom drive? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907190608010.1289-100000@dgriffin.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9907191218380.29920-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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Thanks Johathan, That works just fine, My error was that I thought I had to tell it to mount at /cdrom, so I was trying to use mount /dev/atapi1 /cdrom and it wouldn't give me permission. Your suggestion works just fine. I was just trying to make it too difficult. Thanks On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Stede Bonnet wrote: > > > > > I need to be able to read files from a cdrom, but whe I 'ls ' the /cdrom, > > there are not files. > > > > I suspect that I need to 'mount' the cd drive, but the chart in my book > > says it would expect the dc drive to be SCSI, and mine is IDE driven. > > If you installed from cdrom (which I suspect), the installation system > will have put the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab; you should be able > to just use: > > mount /cdrom > > Jonathan Chen > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do not take life too seriously. > You will never get out of it alive. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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