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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Mitsumi CD
Message-ID: <1994Mar3.192503.13386@gmd.de>
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John Nistler (nistler@chaos.rchland.ibm.com) wrote:
: In article <1994Feb27.161801.4138@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, hfraser@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Hugh Fraser) writes:
[problem mounting FreeBSD CDROM...]
: I think that should be
: mount -r -t isofs /dev/mcd0d /mnt
:
: The -r is for read-only filesystems.
: The -t isofs tells mount to call mount_isofs
: And I don't know why the device minor number must be 3(ie 'd') but thats the one that works.
3 == 'd' is the common descriptor for the "whole", i.e. "raw" disk.
An iso9660 File system occupies the whole disk, there are no
special partitions. A CDROM that is formatted as a BSD disk
with a disk label would possibly then have different partitions
accessed with mcd0[a-h]. However, I have not seen a CDROM with
a ???BSD disk label on it yet (there are some with a SunOS disk label,
though).
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: John Nistler
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