From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 15:54:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 542C237B408 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 63399 invoked by uid 100); 3 Aug 2001 22:54:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15211.11193.199170.974@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:54:49 -0500 To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: "'Aaron'" , Subject: RE: How does sysinstall know? In-Reply-To: <000201c11c6e$b2d2bc20$6401a8c0@equinox> References: <15211.10518.161611.131978@guru.mired.org> <000201c11c6e$b2d2bc20$6401a8c0@equinox> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 types: > -----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 If that works, and it puts it on /mnt, then you should be to do "mount /mnt" and get the same results. More likely it puts it on /cdrom, so you can just do "mount /cdrom". See the mount man page for details. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message