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From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
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Subject: Re: Mounting a  CDROM  in freeBSD 4.2
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, gerald stoller wrote:

>       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 need to check your dmesg to see what device is your cdrom drive. For
example:

acd0: CDROM <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6602B> at ata1-master using PIO4

So I use:

mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0a /mnt

Hope this helps.

-gordon



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