From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 00:28:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8652816A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:28:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D1843D41 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:28:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAK0SlCr020472 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:28:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAK0SjCq078384 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:28:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iAK0SiZP078383 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:28:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:28:44 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20041120002844.GA77574@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: reading a dos cdrom with .pdf files. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:28:48 -0000 People, I have several CDROMS all of which seem to be DOS type. At first I tried the disc in my CD player. Nope; then in one of my 5.3 machines using mount_msdosfs. (probably with the wrong flags, I admit.) As a last resort I put the disc in my RH-8 platform intended to reboot into W2K. But a cup of coffee later I find that Red Hat had already popped up a window with the title of the disc and that it is a 1.1MB pdf file. I doubt this CDROM is a an ISO-9660 (or whatever). But it's nice that RH knew automagically what to do with it and to pop up the pdf reader. I know there is the genius in FBSD-land to do this; probably just enough not people. My question is: what are the FBSD commands to let me mount this disc and let me read the files to be able to point acroread at them? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix