Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:01:59 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>, "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: howto mount a dos cdrom? Message-ID: <01ef01c17d8d$079dfe20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200112050543.fB55hlJ23139@tao.thought.org> <20011205003031.A4299@northernbrewer.com>
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What's wrong with just mount /cdrom ?? It works fine for me with CD-Rs intended for Windows and DOS. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 07:30 Subject: Re: howto mount a dos cdrom? > Gary Kline (kline@tao.thought.org) wrote: > > > > > Is there some magic to reading a DOS/W95 CD (of fonts) from > > either my CDROM (4.3) or DVD (4.4)? Several years ago I bought > > a CDROM full of cheap fonts and somehow got the entire disk > > into my FreeBSD 2.2.6. I may have use dd to get the data off > > /dev/cd0c. Last night I tried using dd with the same fonts CD > > and /dev/acd0c. No joy. > > If the CD is a standard computer CD (with an iso-9660 filesystem), you > should be able to just do this: > > mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom > > You seem to be not sure as to whether your CD-ROM is /dev/cd0c or > /dev/acd0c. I believe SCSI CD-ROMs are /dev/cd0c, while ATAPI > CD-ROMs are /dev/acd0c. You can `cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep > cd` to confirm what device to use for CD. > > -- > Christopher Farley > www.northernbrewer.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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