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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
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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