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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Mitsumi CD
Message-ID: <1994Mar2.172143.16607@gmd.de>
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 17:21:43 GMT
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Hugh Fraser (hfraser@maccs.mcmaster.ca) wrote:
: I've got the Walnut Creek FreeBSD CD (V1.0). My machine has a Mitsumi
: CD, for which the probe function in FreeBSD is apparently broken (ie.
: I cannot instalklk directly from the CD). A kind soul provided me with
: a copy of the patched kernel which does recognize the CD, so I've made
: a corrected boot disk. However, once I get FreeBSD up with the basic kit
: on my hard drive, I don't know how to mount the CD to install the balance
: of the disk. mount -t isofs /dev/mcd0 /mnt gives me an error. Is this
: the correct syntax? What's the mount_isofs command for?
Try
mount -t isofs /dev/mcd0d /mnt
If you have no mcd0d make one with
mknod /dev/mcd0d b 7 3
(The major might be different in FreeBSD).
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