From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 10:33:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out.asia.apple.com (mail-out.asia.apple.com [203.120.14.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665DD37B424 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out.asia.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA02000 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 01:36:51 +0800 (SGT) Received: from scv2.apple.com (scv2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:33:13 -0700 Received: from mkondrar (kondmi2.apple.com [17.205.40.106]) by scv2.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA14326 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000a01c0143a$7988efd0$6a28cd11@mkondrar> From: "Mike Kondrar" To: Subject: Question about adding packages and unmounting cdrom Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:31:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01C013FF.CC3111D0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C013FF.CC3111D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HI! I was able to get FreeBSD to run with GNOME. The only problem I have = now is that GNOME does not display mounted cdrom on the desktop, and = also that I can mount the cdrom only once, and once mounted no matter = that I type unmount /cdrom or umount /cdrom the message I get is that = device is busy, even though I can see that the drive is not being used. = How can I get GNOME to display mounted cdrom graphically so that I can = simplify mounting/dismounting CDROM's Also how do I install packages from the CD which have .tgz ending to = them? Thanks for your help, Mike ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C013FF.CC3111D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
HI!
 
I was able to get FreeBSD to run with = GNOME. =20 The only problem I have now is that GNOME does not display mounted cdrom = on the=20 desktop, and also that I can mount the cdrom only once, and once mounted = no=20 matter that I type unmount /cdrom or umount /cdrom the message I get is = that=20 device is busy, even though I can see that the drive is not being = used. =20 How can I get GNOME to display mounted cdrom graphically so that I can = simplify=20 mounting/dismounting  CDROM's
 
Also how do I install packages from the = CD which=20 have .tgz ending to them?
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Mike
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