Subject: Re: Problems with mounting cdrom in NetBSD 1.4
To: Thomas Patterson <thomas@scottsburg.com>
From: Frank <frank@cfn.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/19/2000 16:32:37
Thomas Patterson wrote:
>
> Hello, I recently install NetBSD 1.4 on a Pentium 233. I've been having
> some trouble mounting my cdrom, when I go to mount it (using mount -t msdos
> /dev/cd0a /cdrom) I get an error of Mount_msdos: Mount: Invalid Argument.
> The media I am using is a cd from cheapbytes.com and can be booted from
> (which leads me to believe I am doing something wrong in my mounting
> syntax). I have attempted to mount using -t fat, iso9660, fs9660, and vfat.
first of all:
you have to create the mountpoint /cdrom with:
mkdir /cdrom (be root for that)
then execute this:
mount cd_9660 /dev/cd0d /cdrom
Frank