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Date:      Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:04:19 +0200
From:      Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        glyn@millingtons.org, bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com>, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX
Message-ID:  <4A2AAFA3.7080502@boosten.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090606180108.GA20291@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
>> Having trouble mounting the ISO:
>>
>> [daniel@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
>> -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
>> mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
> 
> Regular users don't have read/write permissions on /dev/mdctl.
> 
> So either change those permissions so that your user-id has those
> permissions, or run mdconfig as root.
> 

Hmmm, one might think that 'sudo' does exactly that ;-)

Peter

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