From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 10:55: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE28337B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7495543E4A for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfolkins@comcast.net) Disposition-notification-to: dfolkins@comcast.net Received: from groovy3xp (pcp01731796pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net [68.83.131.193]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with SMTP id <0H2H00JRDR3L58@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:54:49 -0400 From: dfolkins Subject: Re: mounting problem To: Jon-Paul Gonzalez , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <004f01c25ce0$fcb141a0$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > the cdrom isnt mounted because I umount /dev/acd0c, and the when I tried to > mount it outside of KDE it said device busy. um, ok, try the following sequence of commands (the umount is there just in case, and the cd / is there to make sure your cwd is not /cdrom, which is useful for umount.) cd / umount /cdrom mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom see if that works for you. > another problem I am having is > that in my /etc/fstab file I dont see my floppy drive as a mountable drive. > any help would help. use the device /dev/fd0 to mount a floppy. e.g.: mkdir /mnt/floppy mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy if its an msdos floppy, try using mount_msdos instead of just mount -- dfolkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message