From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 00:59:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B330A1065673 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 00:59:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575DC8FC13 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 00:59:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 1756 invoked by uid 1002); 8 May 2008 00:59:48 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 0.063983 secs); 08 May 2008 00:59:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 May 2008 00:59:47 -0000 Message-ID: <48225087.1000409@ibctech.ca> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 20:59:51 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Mounting USB CD-ROM manually, after boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 00:59:47 -0000 Hi everyone, To get right to the chase, FBSD 7.0, I plug in an external USB CD-ROM device with a CD (of FreeBSD 7.0) and I want to mount it manually into the filesystem. The device shows up with a label, and appears as /dev/cd0 (in dmesg). # mount /dev/cd0 /cdrom ...fails, with a: mount: /dev/cd0 : Invalid Argument I have nothing else in /dev that would indicate any new device was attached. I know for fact the .iso is burned correctly, because I can boot from the same CD on another PC. Even still, a bad ISO burn still shouldn't prevent me from mounting AFAIK. I've also tried all manner of cd0a etc, but they don't exist. (I can confirm cd0 is the only entry that appears in /dev after USB insertion). Can anyone shed some quick light onto the solution that I am likely purely overlooking? Thanks, Steve