People,
I have several CDROMS all of which seem to be DOS type.
Data CDs are generally IS0-9660 with various extensions.
At first I tried the disc in my CD player. Nope; then in one of my 5.3 machines using mount_msdosfs. (probably
with the wrong flags, I admit.) As a last resort I put the
Wrong flags, unless the CD-ROM has a FAT/FAT32 file system (possible but unlikely).
disc in my RH-8 platform intended to reboot into W2K. But
a cup of coffee later I find that Red Hat had already popped
up a window with the title of the disc and that it is a
1.1MB pdf file. I doubt this CDROM is a an ISO-9660 (or whatever). But it's nice that RH knew automagically what to do with it and to pop up the pdf reader.
Why do you doubt it's ISO-9660?
I know there is the genius in FBSD-land to do this; probably just enough not people. My question is: what are the FBSD
FreeBSD is geared to be a great server operating. The feature you want (auto mounting device) isn't necessarily desirable on a server. While it is possible to configure, it is not something that is available immediately "out of the box".
I'm not saying that FreeBSD doesn't make a great desktop. IMO FreeBSD makes a wonderful desktop, provided you take the time to read the docs and configure it properly.
commands to let me mount this disc and let me read the files to be able to point acroread at them?
This is clearly explained in the man pages as well as the handbook (Section 16.6.7 "Using Data CDs").
Assuming that you have a /cdrom directory, are using an IDE CD-ROM drive and do not have atapicam(4) configured the following command should work for you:
#mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom
If I'm not mistaken, upon install, a /cdrom directory is created when an optical drive is detected (if you have multiple optical drives you also get /cdrom1, /cdrom2, /cdrom3 ....) and /etc/fstab is configured appropriately to allow you to type the following to mount your first optical drive on /cdrom:
#mount /cdrom
If you are using SCSI/USB/Firewire drives or IDE with atapicam(4):
#mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /cdrom
tia,
gary
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