Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:24:26 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Kenneth Legg <kenny@newwave.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new user Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980420091439.16276B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <3539F79D.50F2166F@newwave.net>
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Kenneth Legg wrote:
> This may be a stupid question but how do you get to the cdrom and floppy
> drive in Freebsd 2.2.5. I've looked in the manual and also the man pages
> with no luck.
To have a look at the CDROM, you have to `mount' it somewhere on the
filesystem. If you're using a IDE CDROM reader, the command should
look something like:
mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd0 /mnt
To find out exactly which device name (ie the 1st argument) corresponds
to your CDROM reader, you'll have to inspect the output of `dmesg'.
The same applies to your floppy drive, except that you would use
something like:
mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt
for floppies with MSDOS filesystems. Once you're finished with it
you'll have to `umount' it - don't pop it out of the drive.
Alternatively, there are dostools lying around out there which don't
require you to mount the floppy onto the filesystem.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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