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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:21:26 -0500
From:      Lee Cremeans <lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
To:        Jesse Walters <jwalt@mwci.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdrom mounting
Message-ID:  <19980311202126.62284@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311191307.25291A-100000@firewall.mwci.net>; from Jesse Walters on Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 07:17:09PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311191307.25291A-100000@firewall.mwci.net>

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On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 07:17:09PM -0600, Jesse Walters wrote:
> 	I have a cdrom (ide) when I run dmesg it shows up as wdc0.
> However, I don't know the device name I should use to mount it.  I also
> think for standard dos cd's I need to use cd9660 option correct?  

You want /dev/wcd0c. Mount it with 

mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /wherever

where /wherever is where you want to mount it (usually /cdrom).

> Again, I think this is just a beginner question I just haven't had a whole
> lot of time to check it out.  Thanks.

Glad to help....but you may want to send questions like these to
questions@freebsd.org; that's what it's there for. :)

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