From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 27 12:15:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4D814DAA for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:15:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.66]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB10B8; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:15:39 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00901; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:13:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:13:29 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: rachel chew Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starter help! Message-ID: <19990627211329.D464@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19990627152618.26010.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: <19990627152618.26010.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com>; from rachel chew on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 08:26:18AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * rachel chew (rachelchew@yahoo.com) [990627 19:04]: > Hi. I recently purchase a unix book and came along with it was the > freeBSD 2.25 full binary release software. I am very new to it. I > installed it and it was well. The software was indeed robust. However, > i have problems retriving programs from the cdrom drive. > > How do i connect it to freeBSD? I have searched the freebsd.org and i > read that i had to mount it. mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom ought to do the trick. E.g. it will use the filesystem type cd9660 with device wcd0c (IDE cdrom player) and mount it under /cdrom. Ye can also add this to /etc/fstab to just use mount /cdrom as root in order to mount the cdrom. # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/cd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Note: this is the SCSI cdrom driver. > how do i do that? Also, once i have mount > it, what do i do next? Depends on what ye want to do ;) most likely ye might want to try /stand/sysinstall to install applications from the CD-Rom using the menu's, or try to pkg_add the .tgz files by hand. Also, a lot has changed, for the good IMHO, from 2.2.5 to 3.2 and if ye truely like FreeBSD I'd say give 3.2 a try as it's ports/packages have nearly doubled I guess, plus the menusystem is much more robust. HTH, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at it's best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message