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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: floptical/CDROM problems
Date: 23 Aug 1994 23:33:36 GMT
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Mark D. Spiller (mds@rich.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:

: For the cdrom, FreeBSD recognizes it fine on startup, as dev cd0,
: but when I try to do a mount -t pcfs, I get something along the lines
: of "Mount : input/output error."

try 'mount -t isofs'.
CDROMs are usually  ISO9660 format, not MeSsDOG format.

Phil.
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Phil Homewood                           phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator    brisbane@apana.org.au
          "Here we are about to take the final step now
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