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From: clayton@teleport.com (Clayton Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Mitsumi CD-ROM drive
Date: 13 Dec 1994 12:02:55 -0800
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Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote:
: In article <3cigja$her@news.service.uci.edu>,
:  <root@legend.nts.uci.edu.> wrote:
: >Can anyone show my how to mount my mitsumi cd-rom in freebsd 1.1.5.1?
: >I tried mount -r /dev/mcd0a /usr/cdrom, but each time it crashed my system.
: >thanks!

: It *shouldn't* crash the system, but try

: mount_isofs -r /dev/msdos /usr/cdrom


: Nate


I assume /usr/cdrom exists as a directory on your system.

Then

# mount_isofs -r /dev/mcd0a /usr/cdrom

is what worked for me.

I never could get the regular mount command to work.
-Clayton
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