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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 09:32:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To: cs@mundo-r.com
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Subject: Re: Question on FreeBsd
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Hi,

If you do a 

more /etc/fstab

you'll see that FreeBSD comes with a line that will allow you to mount
your cdrom with the following command:

mount /cdrom

Have fun with your new system.

Dru


On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 cs@mundo-r.com wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I've recently downloaded the 4.2 release of Freebsd from an ftp
> (ftp2.dk.freebsd.org) to try it.
> But during the installation I've had some problems.
> I decided to write the distribution in a cd-rom, because I hadn't  enough
> harddrive space for making a FreeBsd partition and
> for copying the distribution to the harddrive to make a DOS installation.
> So I boot my computer using the two floppies and then I chose the cd-rom
> installation. But when the copying packets' process had to start, it says
> that can't found any FreeBsd distribution in the CD-ROM, but it's not true.
> 
> Finally a friend lent me a harddrive, so I could install FreeBsd. But I
> still having another problem. The sistem doesn't allow me to mount any of my
> cd-rom drives. I use the command: "mount_cd9660 cd0a /mnt/cdrom1". The
> sistem says something like "The device is not configured". I've tried tu use
> instead of cd0a, cd0b, cd1a, ... But it doesn't work anyway.
> But it's very strange, because during the process of boot, the cd-roms are
> recognized.
> (I've two cd-rom units: "AOpen, Model: CD-952EAKH" and "Yamaha, Model:
> 8424E")
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> PS: I'm sorry if I did any mistakes in the writing of this e-mail, but as
> I'm from Spain, my knowledge of english it's not very good.
> 
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