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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: mounting cdroms using FreeBSD 1.0
Date: 4 Feb 1994 01:14:24 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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Message-ID: <2is7hg$q56@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <gokingsCKMyqG.3AA@netcom.com>
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Keywords: mount

In article <gokingsCKMyqG.3AA@netcom.com>,
Russell Marrash <gokings@netcom.com> wrote:
>I have just recently loaded FreeBSD on my system and I'm trying to use
>my SCSI cdrom. I tried -> mount -r -t mfs /dev/cd0a /cdrom , this seemed
>to cause my reader to go busing for a second but I still could not access
>the files on my cdrom when I went to the /cdrom directory.

That's because '-t mfs' means Memory File System, not MyCDROM File System.
:-)

Try

mount -r -t isofs /dev/cd0d /cdrom


Nate
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