From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 14:57: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4310237B575 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:56:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [12.21.241.164] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id fa048391 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:56:44 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA00304; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:56:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: Danny , yoav@bnt.co.il, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting CDrom Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:50:02 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <38C53FB7.21493.59615@localhost> <00031008503804.00345@freebsd.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <00031008503804.00345@freebsd.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030817564002.00230@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, Danny wrote: > Hello, > > Try the following :- > > 1) Login as "root" and type in your "root" password > 2) type in "mount /cdrom" > > Looking forward to your feedback. > > dannyh > > dannyh@idx.com.au Um , I belive that will only work if your cdrom is already described in /etc/fstab thus: #Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro, noauto 0 0 Check dmesg for proper device name. If not so described, then the command would be: $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom Of course make sure you have a directory called /cdrom first. Durn, didn't that sound a bit pedantic? > > On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, yoav@bnt.co.il wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having problems with mounting my cdrom. It's a simple x24 IDE > > cdrom. I've tried consulting the online documentation but still > > didn't work for me. > > > > By the way, I'm new to FreeBSD :) > > > > Thanks, > > Yoav -- Walter Brameld Join the Army. Meet interesting people. Kill them. TANSTAAFL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message