From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 19: 6: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96AAD150F7 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.31] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ta964203 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:03:40 -0500 Message-ID: <387E92BB.30021B9A@twave.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:06:35 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Dave Page , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: mounting CD rom References: <200001140256.VAA45889@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To sum this all up, make sure you have a cd in the drive before you mount it. "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > Dave Page wrote, > [snip] > > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > > > > 3. When I try "mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c /cdrom" I > > get "cd96690: Input/output error" (/cdrom is where I'd like > > to mount it) > > > > Obviously the system knows the drive is there. Am I > > entering the command wrong? (If you have the time, please > > walk me through this step-by-step. Total newbie.) It's not > > mounted *already*, is it? I've tried going to the /cdrom > > directory and doing an ls with a cd in the drive--I get > > nothing. > > It will not mount automatically. You are using the command > correctly. The error message you are getting is most often associated > with two problems, (1) the CDROM has not had the chance to spin-up > yet, or (2) the CDROM in the drive does not have a valid filesystem on > it. > > To solve (1), wait until your activity light on the CDROM comes on and > then turns back off when the disk is loaded before running the > command. > > For (2), this _is_ a CD with an ISO9660 filesystem on it, right? Not > an audio CD? Try another CD with a filesystem. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Walter "TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!" Robert A. Heinlein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message