Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:13:29 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: rachel chew <rachelchew@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starter help! Message-ID: <19990627211329.D464@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <19990627152618.26010.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com>; from rachel chew on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 08:26:18AM -0700 References: <19990627152618.26010.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com>
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* rachel chew (rachelchew@yahoo.com) [990627 19:04]: > Hi. I recently purchase a unix book and came along with it was the > freeBSD 2.25 full binary release software. I am very new to it. I > installed it and it was well. The software was indeed robust. However, > i have problems retriving programs from the cdrom drive. > > How do i connect it to freeBSD? I have searched the freebsd.org and i > read that i had to mount it. mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom ought to do the trick. E.g. it will use the filesystem type cd9660 with device wcd0c (IDE cdrom player) and mount it under /cdrom. Ye can also add this to /etc/fstab to just use mount /cdrom as root in order to mount the cdrom. # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/cd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Note: this is the SCSI cdrom driver. > how do i do that? Also, once i have mount > it, what do i do next? Depends on what ye want to do ;) most likely ye might want to try /stand/sysinstall to install applications from the CD-Rom using the menu's, or try to pkg_add the .tgz files by hand. Also, a lot has changed, for the good IMHO, from 2.2.5 to 3.2 and if ye truely like FreeBSD I'd say give 3.2 a try as it's ports/packages have nearly doubled I guess, plus the menusystem is much more robust. HTH, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at it's best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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