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Date:      Fri, 26 May 1995 21:22:10 +0159 (MET DST)
From:      Andreas Schulz <ats@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
To:        bdoherty@even.icon.palo-alto.med.va.gov (Brian J. Doherty)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: CD access
Message-ID:  <199505261922.VAA23011@freebsd.first.gmd.de>
In-Reply-To: <9505261903.AA03727@even.icon.palo-alto.med.va.gov> from "Brian J. Doherty" at May 26, 95 12:03:24 pm

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> Sorry to bother you, but I'm a little puzzled with the process of 
> getting a CD mounted under FreeBSD-2.0.  At boot time, my Dell Pentium
> recognizes the NEC CD-ROM drive as cd0, but the command 
> 	mount -r /dev/cd0a /mnt 
> gives me the error message saying something like this: 
> 	Incorrect superblock 
> The disk is the FreeBSD disk from Walnut Creek;  I've sent a message

You need to use the following command to mount a cdrom:

	mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt

This tells the mount command that the CD is in the ISO-9660 format that
most CDROM's are using.


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