From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 14:49:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f203.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2C037B698 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:48:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:48:53 -0800 Received: from 12.20.190.1 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:48:52 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.20.190.1] From: "gerald stoller" To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting a CDROM in freeBSD 4.2 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:48:52 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jan 2001 22:48:53.0051 (UTC) FILETIME=[558340B0:01C07F45] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Soren Schmidt >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 . _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message