From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 15:50:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F8637B406 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jslivko@blinx.net) Received: from equinox ([24.168.44.136]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Fri, 3 Aug 2001 18:50:11 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: "'Mike Meyer'" , "'Aaron'" Cc: Subject: RE: How does sysinstall know? Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 18:50:31 -0400 Message-ID: <000201c11c6e$b2d2bc20$6401a8c0@equinox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <15211.10518.161611.131978@guru.mired.org> 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 -- Jonathan M. Slivko Blinx Networks, Inc. http://www.blinx.net -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Mike Meyer Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 6:44 PM To: Aaron Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does sysinstall know? >Um - why bother specifying the file system type? If you set it up >right - and I believe the default install will try and do that for you >- you can just say "mount /cdrom" and it'll work. That's how all my >systems are. Most of them also accept either "mount /cdrom2" or "mount >/cdrw" as well. I have to actually load my CD-ROM drive using mount /dev/acd0c, not anything else. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message