From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 01:50:22 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 CEBBC16A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:50:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958B143D4C for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:50:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from omniBSD@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 16672 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2004 01:50:22 -0000 Received: from acute.anhedonia.com (HELO [10.20.30.10]) (omni@[66.93.24.213]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Nov 2004 01:50:22 -0000 Message-ID: <419EA303.80505@speakeasy.net> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:50:59 -0600 From: Ash User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041104 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline , FreeBSD mailing List References: <20041120002844.GA77574@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20041120002844.GA77574@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 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 01:50:23 -0000 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