From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 14:33:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16201 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 14:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16158 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:33:15 GMT (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA034280893021575; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:32:55 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA12215; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:35:38 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27344; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:24:27 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA16353; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:24:26 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:24:26 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Kenneth Legg cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new user In-Reply-To: <3539F79D.50F2166F@newwave.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Everything in excess, moderation is for monks!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message