Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:48:52 -0500 From: "gerald stoller" <gerald_stoller@hotmail.com> To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting a CDROM in freeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <F203gVZKjMWbPn46PIb0000c81f@hotmail.com>
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>From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
>To: gerald_stoller@hotmail.com (gerald stoller)
>CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Mounting a CDROM in freeBSD 4.2
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:50:59 +0100 (CET)
>
>It seems gerald stoller wrote:
> > Please send the response directly back to me, in addition to
>sending
> > it to hackers , as the volume of mail to hackers is so great that I
>could
> > very easily miss the response if it were only sent there.
> > I just installed freeBSD 4.2 and found that I couldn't mount a
> > CDROM even though I copied the command-lines from (the top of) page 236
>of
> > Greg Lehey's book (ISBN 1-57176-246-9). When I was running freeBSD 3.3
>, I
> > was able to mount a CDROM , and I believe I did it just as described in
> > Greg's book. The error message that I get is 'cd9660: Device not
> > configured'. I was able to mount and read an MSDOS floppy.
>
>You dont give us any information to go on at all, what was the
>exact command you issue'd ?
>
>-Søren
>
The exact command (issued as root ) was
mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd1a /cdrom
after I had previously done mkdir /cdrom .
I also read the man pages for the mount's .
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