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From: gp@asimov.oit.umass.edu (Gregory Pavelcak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Mount External CD-Rom?
Date: 25 Mar 97 12:05:15 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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First excuse newcomer ignorance. Perhaps this question is answered
in the documentation and I haven't found it, or I may have read it 
without recognizing it as the answer.

I'm having reasonable success with getting FreeBSD on my pentium 
laptop, but can't figure out how to make it mount an external 
CD-ROM at a PCMCIA slot. Any suggestions?

Also, just out of curiousity, it seems to me that the hard disk makes
less noise when running FreeBSD than when running Windows 95--
less cranking up and shutting down. Is it just my imagination or
is there some reason for this.

Thanks a lot.