From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 07:52:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA09662 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 07:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA09622 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 07:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.cguy.com (buxton-9.ime.net [206.231.148.138]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA01209; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:52:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609201452.KAA01209@ime.net> From: "Gary Chrysler" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Jerry Dunham" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: Cd's and filesystems (fwd) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:07:28 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes Greg, your right, I should have! -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848 ---------- > From: Greg Lehey > To: Jerry Dunham > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Cd's and filesystems (fwd) > Date: Friday, September 20, 1996 8:23 AM > > Jerry Dunham writes: > > > > Gary Chrysler babbled: > >> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Thu Sep 19 14:50:57 1996 > >> > >> mount /cdrom > >> Works for me! > > > > Sure doesn't seem to work for me. > > Yes, I think Gary should at least have said *why* it works for him. > His /etc/fstab file contains something like > > /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > When you invoke mount with only argument, it looks in /etc/fstab for > *either* the first *or* the second field in each line, and if it finds > a match it fills in the other information by itself. Have a look: I'm > sure that you have something there, but it might be the mount point > /cd0 instead of /cdrom. > > Greg