From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 12:50: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBF437B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F87B43EA9 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 634084FC8A; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:32:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1754A0E for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:32:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:32:56 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error when trying to mount cd In-Reply-To: <1041365441.51041.24.camel@localhost> 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 On 31 Dec 2002, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Subject: Re: Error when trying to mount cd > > On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: > > I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a > > test. > > > Hi Kevin, > To test what? > > Instead of "Error when tryign to mount cd" as a subject, don't you think > that the fact that the CD is actually WinXP was kinda pertinent to the > problem? > > Try previous suggestions with a *normal* data CD, if you please. > > Regards, > > Stacey > A Windows install CD of any version I can think of should mount just fine as an iso9660 data cd. This is a valid test, unless M$ is doing something funky to their CDs that I don't know about. Is this CD usuable in other operatings systems and/or on other hardware? I think the original poster is just tripping over mount(8) liek we all do the first time around .. :) If it still doesn't work post your dmesg output so we can see what type of CD player you have. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message