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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:48:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: Newbie: Q regarding /dev entries
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 01:31:54 -0700
> From: Robert J. Hansen <rjhansen@inav.net>
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Newbie: Q regarding /dev entries
>
> Howdy there.  I'm new to FreeBSD, but have been using That Other Free
> UNIX-alike for the last few years and am pretty comfortable with it,
> although I'm certainly no guru.  Recently, in an attempt to broaden my
> UNIX horizons, I've attempted to install FreeBSD (I happened to have 4.0
> CDs lying around--forgot where I picked them up from).
>
> The install was relatively painless, and the command-line environment
> seems reasonably familiar.  First thing I went about doing was
> attempting to mount a CD so I could install bash (as opposed to sh).
> This is where I ran into my first problem.
>
> Whereas Linux has /dev/hdX entries that make a degree of sense (/dev/hda
> is my main HD, /dev/hdb is a Zip, /dev/hdc is my CD-ROM), the plethora
> of entries in FreeBSD-4.0's /dev/ hierarchy is confusing the living
> daylights out of me.
>
> Attempting to mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd0a (the two most likely
> candidates, I thought) were fruitless.  I tried several others which I
> thought were likely, and struck out on those as well.
>
> Thus, my first question: given that in Linux my setup is:
>
> /dev/hda --> IDE HD
-> /dev/ad0
> /dev/hdb --> IDE Zip
do not know
> /dev/hdc --> IDE CDROM
/dev/acd0c

I hope this will help for the start.

Uli.




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