From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 15: 3:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F144937B422 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 15:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ip32.kingston.dialup.canada.psi.net ([154.5.64.32]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 13SRa8-0002dA-00; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:04:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:06:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru To: Billy Breland Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-ROM mounting errors In-Reply-To: <002501c00fa3$3f99bde0$03010101@breland.com> 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 Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Billy Breland wrote: > I am having problems mounting a cd-rom. Below is my sys info, and error messages: > > FreeBSD 4.0 Release > I am logged in as root > I have tried to mount the cd-rom using: > mount -a, (after removing the "noauto" from fstab) > mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom > mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom > mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 /cdrom > all these commands end with; > cd9660: No such file or directory, (I went to /sbin and mount_cd9660 is present) > Any ideas? You should keep /etc/fstab the way you found it as it's ready to mount cdroms; the noauto flag is a good thing. As long as you have the entry in /etc/fstab, mount /cdrom will do it, as long as you're root and you're trying to mount a data CDROM. You may find this article useful: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/07/05/FreeBSD_Basics.html Cheers, Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message