Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:54:49 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@blinx.net> Cc: "'Aaron'" <click46@webpimps.net>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: How does sysinstall know? Message-ID: <15211.11193.199170.974@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <000201c11c6e$b2d2bc20$6401a8c0@equinox> References: <15211.10518.161611.131978@guru.mired.org> <000201c11c6e$b2d2bc20$6401a8c0@equinox>
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Jonathan M. Slivko <jslivko@blinx.net> types: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Mike Meyer > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 6:44 PM > To: Aaron > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: How does sysinstall know? > > >Um - why bother specifying the file system type? If you set it up > >right - and I believe the default install will try and do that for you > >- you can just say "mount /cdrom" and it'll work. That's how all my > >systems are. Most of them also accept either "mount /cdrom2" or "mount > >/cdrw" as well. > > I have to actually load my CD-ROM drive using mount /dev/acd0c, not > anything else. -- Jonathan If that works, and it puts it on /mnt, then you should be to do "mount /mnt" and get the same results. More likely it puts it on /cdrom, so you can just do "mount /cdrom". See the mount man page for details. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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