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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news-peer.nctu.edu.tw!news.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed5.bbnplanet.com!umass.edu!news.oit.umass.edu!emily.oit.umass.edu!not-for-mail From: gp@emily.oit.umass.edu (Gregory Pavelcak) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mount External CD-Rom? Date: 28 Mar 97 14:32:56 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 33 Message-ID: <333bd698.0@news.oit.umass.edu> References: <3337bf7b.0@news.oit.umass.edu> <5h8tdf$o3p@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: robby.oit.umass.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38003 Bill Paul (wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu) wrote: : Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Gregory Pavelcak : (gp@asimov.oit.umass.edu) had the courage to say: : : : 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? : : You haven't provided enough information. 'An external CD-ROM at a : PCMCIA slot' is a very vague description of the hardware. What kind : of CD-ROM; SCSI or ATAPI? What kind of PCMCIA card? (SCSI controller? : IDE controller? Proprietary? Empty hunk of plastic with 'PCMCIA' written : on it in crayon? What?) What are the vendor names? : : For that matter, what version of FreeBSD are you using? : : : -Bill I am using FreeBSD 2.1.7. CD is ATAPI with IDE card from CNF inc. FreeBSD "sees" the card at boot it says zp:pcmcia slot0:CNF CD-M~CD-ROM~M1~ but I can't figure how to mount. Please help. I would like to install some packages. Thanks. -Greg