From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 19:16:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.fuzion.za.org (pta-dial-196-31-185-63.mweb.co.za [196.31.185.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9B537B401 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:16:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from psyv@sec-it.net) Received: from localhost (psyv@localhost) by lucifer.fuzion.za.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f742HeQ03295; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 04:17:44 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from psyv@sec-it.net) X-Authentication-Warning: lucifer.fuzion.za.org: psyv owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 04:17:37 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-Sender: psyv@lucifer.fuzion.za.org To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: "'Mike Meyer'" , "'Aaron'" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How does sysinstall know? In-Reply-To: <000201c11c6e$b2d2bc20$6401a8c0@equinox> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--- > >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 > 8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<-----8<-- then add an entry like the one that follows in /etc/fstab and "mount /cdrom" should work, /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message