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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.ans.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!chaos.rchland.ibm.com!nistler From: nistler@chaos.rchland.ibm.com (John Nistler) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD with Mitsumi CD Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:56:13 GMT Organization: IBM Rochester MN Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2kvvjt$20mh@locutus.rchland.ibm.com> References: <1994Feb27.161801.4138@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Reply-To: john_nistler@vnet.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.rchland.ibm.com In article <1994Feb27.161801.4138@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, hfraser@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Hugh Fraser) writes: |> 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? 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. -- John Nistler