From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 16:31:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snarf.osdn.com (snarf.osdn.com [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B81A437B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:31:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@36.mht.dialup.G4.NET [216.177.2.36]) by snarf.osdn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f260VNL45860; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:31:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by guinness.osdn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f260TxS06311; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:29:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:29:58 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: SF Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Best way to mount CD-ROM (newbie question) Message-ID: <20010305192957.C6059@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from lists@stevenfettig.com on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:43:34PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 04 Mar 2001 at 22:43:34 -0600, SF wrote: > Amazingly enough, I've been working for some months with a number of > FreeBSD systems and I finally had a need to mount the CD-ROM drive to > the system. The only way I could get it to work is by using the > mount_cd9660 command (i.e. mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom). I am used > to mounting cd's using linux and usually had used the mount command to > do so. Is there a better way to do this (i.e. *more* right)? There are a few different ways to do it: * Use the command you're using. * mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom, which is essentially the same as what you're using * mount /cdrom All 3 methods should work. Choose whichever is easier for you to remember or faster to type :-) - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message