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Date:      Mon, 29 May 2000 10:41:52 +1000
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        "Mark A. Hummel" <mhumm@ispchannel.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why can't I cd to some of my directories?
Message-ID:  <00052910422606.00361@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <392FD5A9.4A4EC3D@ispchannel.com>

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- If you want to unmount the /cdrom
- Try umount /cdrom 
- Then cd /



On Sun, 28 May 2000, Mark A. Hummel wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm re-sending this in plain text... sorry about the html codes in the
> last post.
> 
> Sometimes when I try to cd to a directory like /usr/local/... I get an
> error message reading: Can't cd to ...
> I then try to cd one level down at a time.  cd /usr  then pwd to find
> out I actually made the trip.  Then cd local and I get something like,
> "Sorry, can't cd to /usr/local."  Why?  I'm logged in as root.
> 
> Now that I'm thinking about it, after I mount my CD  ROM, I can see the
> files on it and everything, but, for some reason, I can't unmount it and
> I can't get back to a directory on my BSD hard drive where root is
> mounted.  What's up?
> 
> BTW, I'm sure you'll all be happy to know that I just got an email
> confirmation that my Complete FreeBSD 4.0 Book was shipped yesterday
> (May 26) from Walnut Creek.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
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