Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:16:46 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Ash <omniBSD@speakeasy.net> Cc: FreeBSD mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: reading a dos cdrom with .pdf files. Message-ID: <20041120071646.GA78934@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <419EA303.80505@speakeasy.net> References: <20041120002844.GA77574@thought.org> <419EA303.80505@speakeasy.net>
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:50:59PM -0600, Ash wrote: > 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? > If pdf/data CDROM's--even Windows--really are 9660's, then I stand corrected. These discs were burned from a Win box. If M$ has followed the ] ISO standards, this is probably the first time... . > > > > 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". Agree. I was going to reboot the RH box into my W2K system to see if Windows could read the CD; surprised to find that GNOME had mounted and popped open a GUI app. > > 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 > For around 8 years I stuck with SCSI; but these drives are ISA. I did try mount /dev/acd0 /mnt. Thanks much for your help. I'll also read the handbook and put a pointer in my ~/.notes file. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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