On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:50:59PM -0600, Ash wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> > 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?
>
If pdf/data CDROM's--even Windows--really are
9660's, then I stand corrected. These discs were
burned from a Win box. If M$ has followed the ]
ISO standards, this is probably the first time... .
> >
> > 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".
Agree. I was going to reboot the RH box into my W2K system
to see if Windows could read the CD; surprised to find
that GNOME had mounted and popped open a GUI app.
>
> 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
>
For around 8 years I stuck with SCSI; but these drives are
ISA. I did try mount /dev/acd0 /mnt. Thanks much for your help.
I'll also read the handbook and put a pointer in my ~/.notes file.
gary
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