From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 21:59:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E39C215243 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:59:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.47] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id va002127 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: <38815EB9.F41E3DC6@twave.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 01:01:29 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilfred Crespo Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM References: <4.3.0.25.20000115231057.00a63500@popd.ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------8543CF2E7760A3C372D4A62A" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------8543CF2E7760A3C372D4A62A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Wilfred Crespo wrote: > Hi!, I installed FreeBSD on to my laptop via ethernet-ftp, because my > laptop has a swap port and can only accept a cdrom or a floppy at any one > time. I booted with the floppies and told it to install ftp after i > configured the ethernet card. It finished the install and the machine is > booting fine, the only problem is that, when i put my cdrom in the port and > turn on my machine, FreeBSD will not recognize my cdrom drive. I wanted to > know, does the cdrom have to be in the port during the install for it to > work in freebsd? (if that's so, I am like really screwed because I can't do > that ) Thanks hope to hear from you guys , > Later You need to put an entry in you /etc/fstab file similar to the following: # Device Mountpoint Fstype Options Dump Pass # /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Do mkdir /cdrom if it doesn't already exist. Then place a cd in the drive and type 'mount /dev/acd0c /cdrom'. Check dmesg to see what kind of drive you have, mine happens to be /dev/acd0. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al (ntl-kch-l) n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. --------------8543CF2E7760A3C372D4A62A Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wilfred Crespo wrote:
Hi!, I installed FreeBSD on to my laptop via ethernet-ftp, because my
laptop has a swap port and can only accept a cdrom or a floppy at any one
time. I booted with the floppies and told it to install ftp after i
configured the ethernet card. It finished the install and the machine is
booting fine, the only problem is that, when i put my cdrom in the port and
turn on my machine, FreeBSD will not recognize my cdrom drive. I wanted to
know, does the cdrom have to be in the port during the install for it to
work in freebsd? (if that's so, I am like really screwed because I can't do
that )  Thanks hope to hear from you guys ,
Later
You need to put an entry in you /etc/fstab file similar to the following:

# Device                         Mountpoint              Fstype     Options              Dump         Pass #
/dev/acd0c                      /cdrom                       cd9660    ro,noauto            0                   0

Do mkdir /cdrom if it doesn't already exist. Then place a cd in the drive and type 'mount /dev/acd0c /cdrom'.
Check dmesg to see what kind of drive you have, mine happens to be /dev/acd0.
  

-- 
Walter

in·tel·lec·tu·al (ntl-kch-l) 
n.      Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence.
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