Re: re changing from vista

[Yeef CN]

Windows XP is an alternative

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Steven Susbauer 
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 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 
  opinion
  But why are we interested in converting people?  That borders on
  religious, which an operating system should not be.
 
  exactly.
 
  it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already
  using some flavor of unix.
 
  One can be converted from Solaris to FreeBSD, from NetBSD to OpenBSD,
  and (sometimes) from linux to FreeBSD.
 
  But not from Windows.
 
 I disagree strongly. If someone has the interest and ability (if only to
 read docs), they could certainly change from Windows to FreeBSD. The
 point from your quoted post appears to be that it is not a religion to
 be converted to from anything, rather a tool that some will use if they
 want to, or won't. There's nothing wrong with that.

 Depending on what someone is hoping to accomplish, I would certainly
 suggest FreeBSD as a suitable tool. It is no sweat off my back if they
 use something different though.


 To the OP if you're still reading; read through the handbook beforehand.
 At least, see if it's really what you want to get into. There are
 BSD-based desktop systems that may suit you better if you're looking for
 a more familiar experience. There are also many newbie-friendly Linux
 distributions that could suit you also.




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Re: What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

[Yeef]

this is work for me  freebsd 6.2-RELEASE

/dev/acd0   /cdrom  cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0

you should use root mount it.

On Nov 17, 2007 12:50 PM, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:24:30PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote:
  On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, David J Brooks wrote:
 
  On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote:
  I've googled aroound, and can't be sure what to  add in the
  FStype column to get my DCD/CDROM  burners to work.  Ubuntu
  installed ny 2005 burner automagically.  Nothing like that for
  FreeBSD, so can anybody clue me in what I substitute for
  udf and cd9660?
  
  This is the old and current fstable:
  
  
  # DVD drive (top)
  /dev/acd0   /media/cdroms/0 udf ro,noauto   0   0
  # CD-burner (bottom)
  /dev/acd1   /media/cdroms/1 cd9660  ro,noauto   0   0
  
  cd9660 is what you need. for the burner at least though, you'll want
  to make it rw rather than ro.
 
  Good point! Although my CD burner burns CDs just fine with either
  cdrecord or burncd, even with ro in its fstab line.
 
  This chapter of the handbook:
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html
  
  and the one that follows are worth a careful reading.
 


 I think I have this page bookmarked; can't find it.  I'll try
 rw and ro.   Can either you or David explain why I get a
 popup error: Can't mount volume. [?] When I clicked on the
 Details, it says:

 mount_cd9660: /dev/acd1: Operation not permitted

 I click  on System (upper left) - Preferences -
 Removable Drives and Media Prederences  and select every
 peermissions box.   Nothing.   (I'm using a data disk, not
 audio.)

 Ideas?



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