Subject: Re: X HELP:where is libz!?
To: Armen Babikyan <synapse@lethargy.mit.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/02/1998 11:25:26
> 
> > I have a Toshiba SCSI CD rom connected to my mac. To mount the cd I have to
> > type:
> > 
> > cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV cd0
> > mkdir /cdrom
> > mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd0c /cdrom
> > 
> > but in last line netbsd says:
> > "cd9660: not found"
> > what happends?
> 
> I use "mount_cd9660":

That's what mount -t cs9660 should be doing. :-)

>   mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0c /cdrom
> should mount an ISO-9660 based filesystem. I don't think there's a way to
> mount hfs partitions on CDROM's yet. at least, hfsutilities won't
> recognize or mount any partitions on /dev/cd0, and regular mount obviously
> won't.

Right. You need to make sure it's an ISO 9660 CD (a "UNIX" CD).

Also, you want -o rdonly. "ro" is an old alias for rdonly, and I'm
not sure if it works w/ mount_cd9660. Also, it'll be read-only by default.

Take care,

Bill