Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:50:59 -0600 From: Ash <omniBSD@speakeasy.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: reading a dos cdrom with .pdf files. Message-ID: <419EA303.80505@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <20041120002844.GA77574@thought.org> References: <20041120002844.GA77574@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > People, > > I have several CDROMS all of which seem to be DOS type. Data CDs are generally IS0-9660 with various extensions. > > 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 Wrong flags, unless the CD-ROM has a FAT/FAT32 file system (possible but unlikely). > 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. Why do you doubt it's ISO-9660? > > I know there is the genius in FBSD-land to do this; probably > just enough not people. My question is: what are the FBSD FreeBSD is geared to be a great server operating. The feature you want (auto mounting device) isn't necessarily desirable on a server. While it is possible to configure, it is not something that is available immediately "out of the box". I'm not saying that FreeBSD doesn't make a great desktop. IMO FreeBSD makes a wonderful desktop, provided you take the time to read the docs and configure it properly. > commands to let me mount this disc and let me read the > files to be able to point acroread at them? > This is clearly explained in the man pages as well as the handbook (Section 16.6.7 "Using Data CDs"). Assuming that you have a /cdrom directory, are using an IDE CD-ROM drive and do not have atapicam(4) configured the following command should work for you: #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom If I'm not mistaken, upon install, a /cdrom directory is created when an optical drive is detected (if you have multiple optical drives you also get /cdrom1, /cdrom2, /cdrom3 ....) and /etc/fstab is configured appropriately to allow you to type the following to mount your first optical drive on /cdrom: #mount /cdrom If you are using SCSI/USB/Firewire drives or IDE with atapicam(4): #mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /cdrom > tia, > > gary > > > -Ash
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